Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876
May 19, 1937) was an
American-born
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Assyriologist
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. Born to George Knowles and Abigail Hassinger Langdon in
Monroe, Michigan
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, Langdon studied at the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, participating in
Phi Beta Kappa
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and earning an A. B. in 1898 and an A. M. in 1899. Following this he went to
New York's
Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1903, and then on to
Columbia University
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to obtain a Ph.D. in 1904. Langdon then became a fellow of Columbia in France (1904-1906), during which time he was ordained as a deacon of the
Church of England
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(1905) in Paris. Subsequently, he moved to
Oxford University
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in
England
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(where he was a member of the
Jesus College Senior Common Room
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though not a Fellow), becoming a Shillito reader in Assyriology in 1908, a British citizen in 1913, and after the retirement of
Archibald Sayce
The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 18454 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twe ...
, a Professor of Assyriology in 1919. However, in 1916, when
World War I
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had diminished the size of his classes in England, he spent some time at the
, serving as the curator of its Babylonian section.
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J.K. Fotheringham
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1876 births
1937 deaths
American Assyriologists
English Assyriologists
University of Michigan alumni
People associated with Jesus College, Oxford