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Rufus Byam Richardson was a Greek scholar and archaeologist.
Background
Rufus Byam Richardson was born on April 18, 1845 in Westford, Massachussets, the son of Joseph and Lucy M. (Byam) Richardson. He was seventh in direct line of descent from Ezekiel Richardson, who came in the fleet with Winthrop and landed by July 6, 1630, probably the earliest colonist named Richardson in New England. Ezekiel and his wife Susanna were among the first members of the church, gathered in Charlestown, August 27, 1630, which afterwards became the First Church in Boston. He was one of the founders of Woburn, Massachussets, where he died in 1647.
Education
Rufus Richardson served as a boy-soldier in the Civil War in 1862-63, 6th Massachusetts, was prepared for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachussets, studied at Yale and in Europe, chiefly at the University of Berlin, 1872-74.
Career
He was tutor in Greek at Yale, 1874-78, principal of the high school in Chicopee, Massachussets, 1878-80, professor of Greek at Indiana University, 1880-82, and Lawrence Professor of Greek at Dartmouth College, 1882-93. In 1890-91 he was granted leave of absence from Dartmouth to hold the annual directorship of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Resigning his professorship in June 1893, he became director of the school, a position he held until 1903, after which he made his home in Woodstock, Connecticut.
During the period of his continuous residence in Greece (1893 - 1903) he had official charge of the excavations conducted by the School at Eretria in Euboea (1894 - 95), where an important ancient theatre and a gymnasium were laid bare; and on the site of ancient Corinth where in successive campaigns (1896 - 1902) a substantial part of the ruins of the city was uncovered, the position of numerous buildings located, and works of sculpture discovered.
The exacting requirements of his official position at Athens - the management of the School and of the excavations and excursions conducted by it - absorbed his energies to so great a degree as to prevent him from producing a work of great constructive scholarship. His publications include an edition of 'schines' Oration against Ctesiphon (On the Crown) (1889), Vacation Days in Greece (1903), Greece Through the Stereoscope (1907), History of Greek Sculpture (1911); contributions to arch'ological and philological journals, to the New Englander, the Nation, the New York Independent, and Scribner's.
For Greece, in which he lived for eleven years, he had a deep-rooted and abiding love; and of the most varied parts of that classic land where the splendor of mountain and sea are so closely neighbored he had a peculiarly intimate knowledge. Even in his later years his vigorous physical powers enabled him to take protracted walks and to climb high mountains; when he was well over fifty years of age, he rode his bicycle in many rugged parts of Greece.
His ready command of modern Greek brought him, too, an understanding of the life of the Greek peasant, in whose speech he sought to hear the echoes of the ancient tongue. To his students, his delight in nature everywhere, in man, and in the visible remains of man's artistic genius communicated itself vividly.
Achievements
Kindly, hearty, without the slightest trace of affectation or of pedantry, buoyant through the unaging youthfulness of his spirit, he created capacities for enduring enjoyment by vivifying and vitalizing his learning and by his conception of the dignity of human nature.
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Membership
Richardson's contributions to Greek archeaology were recognized by his election to membership in many learned societies: the British Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Arch'ological Society in Athens, the Imperial and Royal Arch'ological Society of Germany, the Imperial and Royal Arch'ological Institute of Austria, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Connections
He was married in 1877 to Alice Linden Bowen, daughter of Henry C. Bowen.
