biography
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Seager, Richard B(erry)
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pronunciation:
[seeger]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1925)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in Lansing, Michigan, USA. The son of a propserous lawyer and brother of the well-known economist, Henry Rogers Seager (1870–1930), he was forced by a heart condition to leave Harvard, but recuperated in Germany and pursued his own studies of classics and archaeology, spending most of his life in Europe. In Greece (1903) he met Edith Boyd (Hawes), a young American who had recently begun to excavate Minoan remains on Crete. He joined her and soon was in charge of his own site, Vasilike. He continued to excavate for many years on Crete, and wrote several important scholarly monographs, particularly on his finds at Pachyammos, Mochlos, and Pseira. He was also a collector of sealstones and other small artifacts, which he donated to various museums. Having originally gone to Egypt to see the discoveries from the tomb of Tutankhamen, he was taken ill on ship while returning to Crete, and died at sea. |
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