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Austen Henry Layard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Biography of the Anthropologist Sir Austen Henry Layard ... Sir Austen Henry Layard was one of the leading British archaeologists of the nineteenth century. As befitted a Victorian gentleman, he was not a professional archeologist nor did he restrict his intellectual activities to archeology.
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Austen Henry Layard was one of the great archaeological pioneers of the Victorian Age. Together with the Frenchman, Paul Emile Botta, he brought to light one of the major civilizations of the ancient world, Assyria. ... Sir Stratford Canning was a very commanding figure, tall and handsome with firm convictions and a...
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Layard, Austen Henry, Sir [originally Henry Austen Layard] ... Layard, Austin. Sir A. Henry Layard, G.C.B., D.C.L.: Autobiography and Letters from his Childhood until his Appointment as H. M. Ambassador at Madrid. London: J. Murray, 1903; Parry, Jonathan. "Layard, Austen Henry." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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SIR AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD (1817-1894), British author and diplomatist, the excavator of Nineveh, was born in Paris on the 5th of March 1817. The Layards were of Huguenot descent. His father, Henry P. J. Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel...
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On November 8, 1845 Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) began excavating at the mound of ancient Calah (Tel Nimrud). He unearthed the palaces of Ashurnasirpal, Shalmaneser II, Tiglath-Pileser II), Adadnirari, and Esarhaddon. ... Also See 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica - Sir Austen Henry Layard...
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Layard, Sir Austin Henry (1817-1894). -- Explorer of Nineveh, b. at Paris, s. of a Ceylon civilian. After spending some years in the office of a London solicitor, he set out in search of employment in Ceylon, ... A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin; Layard, Sir Austin Henry...
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Related Category: Archaeology: ... (lā´ərd), 1817–94, English archaeologist and diplomat. Between 1842 and 1851 he explored and excavated in Mesopotamia, especially at Nineveh. In the period from 1852 to 1869 he held various government positions, including those of under secretary of foreign affairs ... See biographies by G.
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LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry: Long ALS to Lord Reay, 6 October 1888. ... LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894). Excavator of Nineveh. Long Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Reay, 3½ pages 8vo on thinly black-edged paper, Venice, 6 October 1888. Describing the constitution and intentions of the Venezia-Murano Company,
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