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SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL RAMSAY (185r– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 880 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:MITCHELL See also:RAMSAY (185r– )  , 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 See also:Exeter See also:College, Oxford (1882; honorary fellow 1898), and See also:Lincoln College (1885; honorary 1899) . In 1885 he was elected See also: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 See also: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 See also:early See also:Roman See also:Empire . He received the honorary degrees of D.C.L . Oxford, LL.D . St See also: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 See also:Pennsylvania . His numerous publications include: The See also:Historical See also: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 See also:Citizen (1895; Germ . trans., 1898); Impressions of See also:Turkey (1897); Was See also: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 See also: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 .

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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, See also:Lady See also:Ramsay, granddaughter of Dr See also: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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