David Gordon Lyon: Difference between revisions

David Gordon Lyon was born in [[Benton, Alabama]] on May 24, 1852, the son of a doctor.<ref>{{Cite Hemagazine received|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169 his|title=Recipients Aof Honorary Degrees |magazine=The Harvard Graduates' Magazine |volume=X |number=XXXVII |pages=169–170 |date=September 1901 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=Death>{{Cite news |url=https://www.Bnewspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-david-gord/54752351/ |title=Dead of Dr David G. Lyon |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=8 |date=1935-12-04 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1875 he received his AB from Howard College in [[Marion, Alabama]]. (Howard is now [[Samford University]]) and located in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], in 1875). He studied at the [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]] under [[Crawford Howell Toy]], and went to Germany, where he married Tosca Woehler (d. 1904) and received his Ph.D.PhD from the [[University of Leipzig]] in 1882, in the study of [[Syriac language|Syriac]].<ref name="pfeiffer">{{cite journal|last=Pfeiffer|first=Robert H.|title=David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935)|journal=[[Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]|year=1936|volume=70|issue=10|pages=552–54|jstor=20023182}}</ref> While there, he met Tosca Woehler, whom he married in 1883.<ref name=Alumni>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnKoco5TWfQC&q=%22Mabel%20E.%20Harris%22 |title=Harvard Alumni Bulletin |volume=XXXVIII |page=387 |date=1935 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books |quote=In 1883 he married Tosca Woehler of Leipsic, Germany. She died in 1904, and in 1910 he married Mabel E. Harris. She died in 1931.}}</ref>

He occupied the [[Hollis Chair of Divinity|Hollis Chair]] at [[Harvard Divinity School]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Unitarian year book|year=1902|publisher=[[American Unitarian Association]]|pages=136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cP0QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136}}</ref> from 1882<ref>{{cite news|title=The History of the Divinity School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5IBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA117|accessdate=24 December 20102023-05-05|newspaper=[[Harvard Alumni Bulletin]]|year=1916|pages=114–18 |via=Google Books}}</ref> to 1910, when he assumed the Hancock professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages.<ref name="retire">{{cite news |title=Prof. Lyon to retire: He becomes professor emeritus after 40 years' service at Harvard |url=httphttps://querytimesmachine.nytimes.com/memtimesmachine/archive-free1921/11/26/103577410.pdf?res=F30E12F93A5810738DDDAF0A94D9415B818EF1D3 |accessdate=24 December2023-05-05 2010|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=13 |date=26 November 1921}}</ref> Six years after Tosca Woehler's death (1904) he married Mabel E. Harris (d. 1931).<ref name="pfeiffer"/><ref name=Alumni/> He was the founding curator<ref name="dies">{{cite news|title=Founder of Semitic Museum, Professor of Languages, Dies: David G. Lyon Had Been Teaching at Harvard Since 1882|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1935/12/5/founder-of-semitic-museum-professor-of/|accessdate=24 December 2010|newspaper=[[The Harvard Crimson]]|date=5 December 1935}}</ref> of the [[Semitic Museum]].<ref>{{cite book|title=General catalogue issue|year=1909|publisher=[[Harvard University]], C.W. Sever|pages=660|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nA0gAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA660 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He retired from Harvard in 1921.<ref name="retire"/>

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