David Gordon Lyon: Difference between revisions

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=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=cP0QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136}}</ref> from 1882<ref>{{cite news|title=The History of the Divinity School|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=B5IBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA117|accessdate=24 December 2010|newspaper=[[Harvard Alumni Bulletin]]|year=1916|pages=114–18}}</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=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=nA0gAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA660}}</ref> He retired from Harvard in 1921.<ref name="retire"/>