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Hilda Lorimer A linguist working in Persian and Indian languages, Hilda Lorimer was born in Scotland in 1873 and attended London University and went on to Cambridge and thereafter became a Classical Tutor at Oxford. In 1901-1902 she attended the British School at Athens where she studied Homeric archaeology and ornithology, and published the Naukratis pottery. During World War I she worked at the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Salonica. Thereafter, in 1920 she took her M.A. degree at Oxford, taught Homeric archaeology, and in 1922 she returned to Greece to work on the Mycenae excavations, and in 1931 she worked on the excavations at Aetos in Ithaca. In 1934 she excavated in Zakynthos and at Akroterion. Publishing widely, she died in 1954, “a brave spirit and one of the most learned and remarkable women of her generation.” Author of biography: Helen Waterhouse Download biography (in PDF format) Keywords: Aetos, A. C. Clark, A. F. Grant, A. H. Cooke, Akroterion, Albania, archaeology, Argos, Athens, Blegen, Boubousti, British School at Athens, Cambridge University, Classical Tutor, classics, Craven Fund, Dendra, Dundee High School, Edinburgh, First Class, Foreign office, Free Church of Scotland, Gilbert Murray, Girton College, Greece, Henry Pelham, “Highland Hilda”, Hilda Lorimer, Hogarth, Homer, Homeric archaeology, jiu jitsu, J. L. Myres, J. P. Postgate, Indian, Isabella Lockhart Robertson, Ithaca, Kalkani, Kalogeros, Lady Carlisle Research Fellowship, Levkas-Ithaca theory, Linear B, linguist, London University, Lucy Sutherland, Mains, Mycenae, Naukratis, ornithology, Oxford University, pan-Minoan, Peloponnese, Persian, Pfeiffer Traveling Student, pottery, Radcliffe Infirmary, R. D. G. Laffan, Ramsay, Reverend Robert Lorimer, Salonica , Scotland, Scottish Women’s Hospital, Serbian, Serbia, Somerville College, Strathmartine, Sylvia Benton, Troy, Turkey, Wace, Walter Heurtley, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, W. Warde Fowler, William Paterson, World War I, Yugoslav, Zakynthos. |
