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David Gordon Lyon was born on May 24, 1852 in Benton, Alabama, United States. His parents were Dr. Isaac Lyon, who was born in England, and Sarah Caroline (Arnold) Lyon.
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David Gordon Lyon was born on May 24, 1852 in Benton, Alabama, United States. His parents were Dr. Isaac Lyon, who was born in England, and Sarah Caroline (Arnold) Lyon.
Lyon attended Howard College in Alabama and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1875. Later he began his study of Semitic languages with Hebrew at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky from 1876 to 1879 under Crawford H. Toy and continued them from 1879 to 1882 at the University of Leipzig under Friedrich Delitzsch, who kindled in him an undying enthusiasm for Assyriology. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Leipzig in 1882, presenting as his thesis a copy and interpretation of the cuneiform inscriptions of Sargon of Assyria.
In 1874 Lyon became one of the editors of the Howard Collegian, publishing there editorials and poems on religious subjects. In 1875-1876 he was business manager of the Alabama Baptist. On the recommendation of Professor Toy, who had resigned his chair in the Southern Baptist Seminary in 1879 and a year later had founded the department of Semitic languages in Harvard College, Lyon was appointed Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard in 1882 and inaugurated the teaching of Assyriology in the United States in that year. He succeeded Toy as Hancock Professor in 1910 and served as chairman of the division of Semitic languages and history until his retirement in 1922.
Lyon's interests were not confined to the Bible and Semitic philology but embraced the archeology of the Near East. At the end of 1887 he obtained funds for the purchase of two collections of Babylonian tablets--the original nucleus of the Harvard Semitic Museum, which he founded with the financial help of Jacob H. Schiff. Appointed as its curator on January 12, 1891, he remained in charge of it exactly forty years (as curator from 1891 to 1922, and as honorary curator from 1922 to 1931). The Semitic Museum building, the costs of which were contributed by Schiff, was formally opened on February 5, 1903. In the summer of 1891 Lyon went to Europe to purchase collections for the new museum. He obtained other collections during his visits to Palestine in 1906-1907, as director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and in 1908, when he directed, with Gottlieb Schumacher, the excavations at Samaria (continued in 1909 - 1910 by G. A. Reisner).
A scholar of exacting standards, Lyon made important contributions to Assyriology, which in 1896 he called "the most recent, the most fascinating, and the most far-reaching department of Semitic inquiry. " At the same time, in the classroom and in the lecture hall, as well as through the Semitic Museum, he kindled his enthusiasm in many others. He was one of the editors of the Studies in the History of Religions presented to Professor Toy in 1912, contributing to it "The Consecrated Women of the Hammurabi Code, " and of the Harvard Semitic Series from 1912 to 1934.
Lyon was known as the founder of the Semitic Museum. He participated at the excavations at Samaria and helped organize and finance the Harvard-Bagdad School excavations at Nuzi (Kirkuk, Iraq). He was also noted as an author of some works and numerous articles in the history of religions and in Oriental studies. His principal publications included: "An Assyrian Manual" (1886), "The Structure of the Hammurabi Code" (1904) and "Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910" (1924), written in collaboration with G. A. Reisner and C. S. Fisher.
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The Christian atmosphere of the home and his religious upbringing made a lasting impression on him: to his death he was a devout member of the Baptist Church. In later years he occasionally preached in churches, although he was never ordained.
Lyon was a member of several professional societies and served at the American Oriental Society as recording secretary from 1886 to 1895, and at the Society of Biblical Literature as corresponding secretary from 1894 to 1899 and as president in 1910.
Lyon was twice married: on July 24, 1883, to Tosca Woehler of Leipzig, who died in 1904, and on August 17, 1910, to Mabel Everett Harris, by whom he had one son, David Gordon, Jr.
