Richard MacGillivray Dawkins

Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( born October 24, 1870 in Surbiton, Surrey; † May 4, 1955 in Oxford ) was a British archaeologist and Classic Neogräzist.

Life

Dawkin's parents were Richard Dawkins (1828-1896), an officer in the Royal Navy, and Mary Louisa MacGillivray. After visiting the Totnes Grammar School and Marlborough College Dawkins began studying electrical engineering at King's College London, but there were two years back on to work at the Arc Works of Colonel REB Crompton in Chelmsford. This place he was given the heritage which he had with the death of his parents 1896/1897, and studied from 1898 to Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. With the completion of the study in 1902 it a Craven Scholarship for study at the British School at Athens was awarded for one year. He remained there until 1914, however, and was from 1904 to 1910 at the same time a Fellow of Emmanuel College residence without obligation. From 1906 to 1914 he was also director of the British School at Athens. In 1907 he inherited from a distant maternal relatives, the house Plas Dulas in Wales Llandulas. During the First World War he was initially from 1914 to 1915 at the Home Guard in Plas Dulas, then from 1915 to 1916 at the Intelligence Department of the British Legation. Subsequently, he was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in Crete and instructed there until 1919 with Enlightenment. In 1920, Dawkins was first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, 1922 appointed Fellow of Exeter College, a position which he held until his retirement in 1938.

Services

Dawkins was one of the pioneers of Minoan archeology and the study of the Greek dialects and fairy tales. He took part in an excavation in the Cretan Palekastro and on a 1905 survey of the landscape begun Laconia. From 1906 to 1910 he directed the excavation of the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia significant in Sparta. In Boeotian Rhitsona he directed the excavation of a cemetery by Ronald Montagu Burrows and Percy N. Ure. From 1911 headed an excavation in Phylakopi on the Cycladic island of Milos. In the years 1909-1911 he conducted linguistic fieldwork in Cappadocia. The result was the first and for a long time authoritative study of the Cappadocian, a modern Greek dialect with strong Turkish influences. On byzantinistischem area Dawkins has dealt with the Chronicle of Cypriot writer Leontius Machairas from the 15th century and published a font to the monks of Mount Athos.