David Gordon Lyon: Difference between revisions

Lyon was born in [[Benton, Alabama]], the son of a doctor. He received his A.B. from Howard College (now [[Samford University]]) in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], 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. from the [[University of Leipzig]] in 1882, in the study of [[Assyrian language|Assyrian]].<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=552-54552–54|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/20023182|accessdate=24 December 2010}}</ref>

He occupied the [[Hollis Chair]] at [[Harvard Divinity School]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Unitarian year book|year=1902|publisher=[[American Unitarian Association]]|pages=136|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cP0QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136}}</ref> from 1882<ref>{{cite news|title=The History of the Divinity School|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=B5IBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA117|accessdate=24 December 2010|newspaper=[[Harvard Alumni Bulletin]]|dateyear=1916|pages=114-18114–18}}</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=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30E12F93A5810738DDDAF0A94D9415B818EF1D3|accessdate=24 December 2010|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 November 1921}}</ref> Six years after Tosca Woehler's death (1904) he married Mabel E. Harris (d. 1931).<ref name="pfeiffer"/> 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=http://books.google.com/books?id=nA0gAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA660}}</ref> He retired from Harvard in 1921.<ref name="retire"/>