Arthur Fairbanks

Arthur Fairbanks

The Michigan Alumnus 102-109

Arthur Fairbanks, Ph.D., has been appointed to the chair of Greek left vacant at the death of Professor Albert H. Pattengill. He was born Nov. 13, 1864, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1886. He attended Union Theological Seminary and the Yale Divinity School from1887 to 1889, and studied abroad the following year, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in1890.

On his return to this country he was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1891. Although he preached occasionally, the next few years were spent in the main as instructor, in turn at Dartmouth, and Yale, and Cornell Universities, after which he went to Athens as Fellow at the American School, 1898-99. On his return to this country he received his appointment as Professor of Greek in the Iowa State University, which position he held from 1900 to 1906, and left to take up his new work at Michigan. He has also been managing editor of the "Classical Journal" of Chicago.

Professor Fairbanks has contributed many articles to various archaeological and philological magazines, besides publishing the following works: Translation of Rield's "Science and Metaphysics," London, 1894; "An Introduction to Sociology," London, 1896, with a third edition published in New York in 1901, and a Japanese translation published in 1901; "First Philosophers of Greece," 1898; "The Greek Paean," ’Cornell. Studies XII,' 1900. He also has in press a volume on Greek Mythology to be published by D. Appleton & Co.; and a volume on the Athenian White Lekythoi.

Professor Fairbanks was married in 1889 to Miss Elizabeth L. Moody, Hanover, N. H.

https://www.lib.umich.edu/faculty-history/faculty/arthur-fairbanks/bio I.S. 12/13/2017

Arthur Fairbanks (November 13, 1864 Hanover, New Hampshire – January 13, 1944 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an art historian and administrator who lived and worked in the United States. From 1908 to 1925, he was director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Biography[edit]

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1886 and attended the Yale Divinity School and the Union Theological Seminary. He also studied in Germany, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1890. He was on the faculty of Dartmouth College and Yale and Cornell Universities until 1900, when he became professor of Greek literature and archaeology at the University of Iowa. In 1906, he was appointed professor of Greek and Greek archaeology in the University of Michigan. He was appointed curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1907, and in 1908 became director there. He supervised the museum's move to its current Fenway location. He retired in 1925. He was a member of many classical and learned societies.

Works[edit]

Introduction to Sociology (1896)

The Mythology of Greece and Rome (1907)

Handbook of Greek Religion (1910)

Greek Gods and Heroes (1915)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fairbanks I.s. 12/13/2017

His bio is down on Dictionary of Art Historians, for some reason. Used Wiki, which sites the DoAH article.