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John was born at Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, United States, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, the son of Robert Dunlap and Nancy Snyder (Sitlington) Sterrett.
From 1868 to 1871 he was a student in the University of Virginia, and then went abroad, where he studied at Leipzig, Berlin, and Munich, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Munich in 1880. He was a student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Sterrett became professor of Greek at Miami University in 1886, retaining that position for two years and then holding a similar position at the University of Texas until 1892. Called to Amherst College, he was professor of Greek there until 1901, when he became head of the Greek department at Cornell University, remaining as such until his death. In 1896-97 he also served as professor in the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
The ruling passion of Sterrett's life was exploration and archaeological research in Asia Minor and Babylonia, whither he led several expeditions, the fruits of which are contained in his publications. His unbounded enthusiasm for archaeology is evinced by the fact that he spent all his limited patrimony upon it. His main object was to explore the least known, and therefore the most dangerous, regions.
On the Wolfe Expedition in 1885, for example, with a subsidy of only a thousand dollars, and with but two native servants, he was able - thanks to his economy, tact, personality, and knowledge of the Turkish language - safely to visit the unknown regions of Pisidia, Cilicia, Lycaonia, and Isauria and by his observations and measurements to reconstruct Heinrich Kiepert's maps of those countries.
He died in 1914.
John Robert Sitlington Sterrett made remarkable contributions to the fields of chorography and epigraphy. He had in mind the completion of three great tasks: an historical geography of the New Testament; a translation of Strabo's work on geography; and a two-year expedition to Asia Minor and Cyrenaica. He had collected material for the first task, had begun the second, and had started a campaign for $100, 000 to finance the third.
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He was intensely religious, caring only for the things of the spirit.
He was a man of large physique and commanding personality, an inspiring teacher, and an indefatigable worker. Although uncompromising in his settled beliefs, he was modest and tolerant to a fault.
On March 1, 1892, he was married to Josephine Mosely Quarrier of Charleston, West Virginia, by whom he had four children.
