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See also: British archaeologist, was See also: born on the 15th of See also: March 1851
.
He was educated at the
See also: universities of See also: Aberdeen, See also: Oxford and See also: Gottingen, and was a See also: fellow of Exeter See also: College, Oxford (1882; honorary fellow 1898), and Lincoln College (1885; honorary 1899)
.
In 1885 he was elected professor of classical See also: art at Oxford, and in the next See also: year professor of humanity at Aberdeen
.
From 1880 onwards he travelled widely in See also: Asia Minor and rapidly became the re-cognized authority on all matters See also: relating to the districts associated with St See also: Paul's missionary journeys and on See also: Christianity in the early See also: Roman See also: Empire
.
He received the honorary degrees of D.C.L
.
Oxford, LL.D
.
St Andrews and See also: Glasgow, D.D
.
See also: Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1906
.
He was elected a member of learned See also: societies in See also: Europe and See also: America, and has been awarded medals by the Royal See also: Geographical Society, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the University of Pennsylvania
.
His numerous publications include: The See also: Historical Geography-of
Asia Minor (1890); - The See also: Church in the Roman Empire (1893) ;
The Cities and Bishoprics of
See also: Phrygia (2 vols., 1895, 1897);
St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen (1895; Germ
.
trans., 1898); Impressions of See also: Turkey (1897); Was Christ born at See also: Bethlehem
?
(1898); Historical Commentary on See also: Galatians (1899); The See also: Education of Christ (1902); The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia (1905); Pauline and other Studies in Early Christian See also: History (1906); Studies in the History and
Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (1906);
The Cities of St Paul (1907); See also: Lucan and Pauline Studies
(1908); The Thousand and One Churches (with See also: Miss Gertrude L
.
See also: Bell, 1909); and articles in learned See also: periodicals and the 9th, loth and 1 rth See also: editions of the See also: Encyclopaedia Britannica
.
His wife, Lady See also: Ramsay, granddaughter of Dr Andrew See also: Marshall of See also: Kirkintilloch, accompanied him in many of his journeys and is the
author of Everyday See also: Life in Turkey (1897) and The See also: Romance of Elisavet (1899)
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