Frederick William Hasluck

Frederick William Hasluck ( born February 16, 1878 in Bytham Lodge, Municipal Borough of Southgate in the former county of Middlesex, England; † February 22, 1920 in the sanatorium Beau Reveil in Leysin, Switzerland ) was an English historian and archaeologist.

Hasluck was educated at the Leys School and at King's College, University of Cambridge. After the completion of the College in 1904, he worked at the British School at Athens (BSA ), where he worked during the excavations in Laconia at Geraki and Aggelona and in Cyzicus, and Bithynia. Hasluck found much new material, including an inscription of Pompey and unpublished local coins. His most notable success was the Aesepus Bridge, a large undescribed Roman bridge in Mysia, where he examined the remains of the Makestosbrücke, the White Bridge and Constantine bridge. In 1906 he traveled to Asia Minor, together with Richard MacGillivray Dawkins.

Hasluck married Margaret Hardie, while he continued to work at the British School in Athens, where he was deputy director from 1911 to 1915 and from 1906 to 1915 librarian. Margaret chose the offers her husband a trip to Konya, the former Iconium, from where the couple spent the spring of 1913. Frederick has long been interested in the interaction between Christianity and Islam in the Ottoman Empire and made this issue increasingly becoming the focus of his work. The Haslucks lived in Athens and undertook extended trips over the next four years in the southwestern part of the Balkans.

Haslucks work as a historian and archaeologist at the British School in Athens was terminated due to several factors. Hasluck became more and more distress by AJB Wace, who worked during the excavations in Laconia with Hasluck. It does seem that Wace saw a potential competitor in Hasluck. Wace was a board member of the British School in Athens, returned to London, where he was elected principal of the school, and made ​​sure that Hasluck was dismissed from the British School - probably due to hostilities with Margaret, the wife Haslucks.

The Haslucks remained in Athens, but now working at the British embassy and helped with intelligence operations.

Publications (selection)

• Cyzicus. University Press, Cambridge 1910 ( unz.org ).
• Constantinata. In: Essays William Ridgeway. University Press, Cambridge 1913, pp. 635-638 ( Open Library ).
• Athos and its monasteries. London 1924.
• Letters on Religion and Folklore. Luzac, London, 1926.
• Christianity and Islam under the Sultans. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929.