Background
Burrage, Champlin was born on April 14, 1874 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Henry Sweetser and Caroline (Champlin) Burrage.
Burrage, Champlin was born on April 14, 1874 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Henry Sweetser and Caroline (Champlin) Burrage.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1896, honorary Master of Arts, in absentia, 1905. Studied university of Berlin and Marburg, and traveled widely in Europe, 1899-1901, University of Oxford, 1906-1915. Bachelor of Letters, Oxford, 1909.
History research in English libraries, 1901-1915.
Faculty of Brown University, 1915-1917. History, archaeological and philological research in American libraries and museums, 1915-1920. Temporarily on staff Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, summer 1923 and winter 1923-1924.
Corresponding member North.E. History-Genealogical Society.
Member Archaeological Institute America, Bibliographical Society America, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa. Author: A New Year’s Guift by Robert Browne, 1588, 1904.
The Church Covenant Idea, 1904. The True Story of Robert Browne (Oxford University Press), 1906.
The Retraction of Robert Browne, 1907.
New Facts Concerning John Robinson, 1910. The Early English Dissenters in the Light of Recent Research (Cambridge University Press), 1912. John Penry, the So-Called Martyr of Congregationalism, 1913.
Nazareth and the Beginnings of Christianity, 1914.
John Pory’s Lost Description of Plymouth Colony, 1918. An Answer to John Robinson, of Leyden, 1920.
The Minoan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, I. The Phaestos Whorl, 1921 (reprinted from Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volunteer 32, 1921. This brochure is believed to contain a considerable number of first readings from the prehistoric Cretan inscriptions).
Studies in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions and Pictographs of Minoan Crete and Neighboring Countries and Islands.
Also contributor history articles in English Historical Review, American Journal of Theology, Harvard Theological Review, et cetera Collector Henry South. Burrage collection, Colgate University library, relics of mound builders of Ohio (Muskingum valley and Blennerhassett island regions) and the Burrage collection of Cretan Antiquities, since 1927.
Compiler and editor Seaman’s Handbook for Shore Leave, 1st edit, 1919 (for United States Shipping Board). Made Minoan and Hittite investigations in the Ashmolean Museum, British Museum and museums of Athens and Candia.
Also made first archaeological visit to Crete, 1926-1927, 2d visit 1927.
Home: 5 Brookline Master of Arts‡.
Member North.E. History-Genealogical Society. Member Archaeological Institute America, Bibliographical Society America, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married at Oxford, Florence Dwight Dale, of Montclair, New Jersey, September 3, 1907.