Frederick J. Bliss

Frederick Jones Bliss (born 22 January 1859 in Suq -al- Gharb, Syria (now Lebanon), † 1937) was an American archaeologist.

Bliss was born in 1859 as son of Reverend Daniel Bliss, the founder of the Syrian Protestant College, now the American University of Beirut. His parents immediately went after her marriage in December 1855 as missionaries to Syria.

He studied at Amherst College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts ( BA) in 1880. He then spent three years at the Syrian Protestant College operates. Next he studied until 1887 at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Between 1888 and 1890 he conducted research in what is now Syria. 1890 was given to him by the Palestine Exploration Fund the option of continuing the excavations begun by Flinders Petrie at Tell el- Hesy. After a short briefing by Petrie at Meidum Bliss began his work at Tell el- Hesy. The other excavations should take two years. His successful work at Tell el- Hesy meant that he fulfilled more tasks for the Palestine Exploration Fund in a row. He was from 1894 to 1897 worked in Jerusalem. Here he assisted Archibald Dickie. Next, Bliss was sent by the Palestine Exploration Fund in the Shephelah. He now worked with RAS Macalister. Together they conducted excavations at Tell Zakariya, Tell es - Safi, Tell el- Judeidah and Tell Sanda Hanna.

1900 Bliss was dismissed from the service of the Palestine Exploration Fund. This was partly due to the deteriorating health of Bliss, secondly to the fact that the Palestine Exploration Fund were not spectacular enough his finds of recent years. William Foxwell Albright represented here later the opinion that the Palestine Exploration Fund have thus made ​​a serious mistake and the Levantine archeology back throw.