- Also known as
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Frank Calvert
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primary name: Calvert, Frank
- Details
- individual; collector; archaeologist; government/regional authority; English; Male
- Life dates
- 1828-1908
- Biography
- Brought up in Malta but at the age of sixteen joined his family in the Troad region of western Turkey where he became the American Consular Agent at the Dardanelles, occasionally serving simultaneously as the Acting British Consul. He was a self-taught scholar with a keen interest in the ancient history and topography of the Dardanelles. He excavated at the mound of Hissarlik (ancient Troy) prior to Heinrich Schliemann (q.v.). Also developed a large collection of antiquities from the Troad and eastern Mediterranean. Wrote a brief article entitled "Excavations in the Troad" in 'The Levant Herald', 4 February 1873.
- Bibliography
- Arentsen, W. 2001, 'Frank Calvert, Henry Austen Layard and Heinrich Schliemann'. Anatolian Studies 51, 169-85.
Robinson, M. 2003, 'Calvert, Schliemann and Hanai Tepeh'. Allen, S.H. 1996, '"Principally for Vases, Etc.": The Formation and Dispersal of the Calvert Collection'. Anatolian Studies 46, 145-65.
Allen, S.H. 1999, Finding the Walls of Troy: Calvert and Schliemann at Hisarlik (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Bloedow, E.F. 1999, 'Heinrich Schliemann and Frank Calvert in the Troad - 1868-1873', 'Boreas' 21/22, 5-40.
Robinson, M. 1994, 'Pioneer, scholar, and victim. An appreciation of Frank Calvert'. Anatolian Studies' 44, 153-68.
Robinson, M. 1995, 'Frank Calvert and the discovery of Troia'. Studia Troica 5, 323-41.
Berytus' 47, 15-28.
