Hetty Goldman (December 19, 1881 - May 4, 1972) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East.
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Early life
Hetty Goldman was born on December 19, 1881, in New York City. She was a member of the Goldman-Sachs banking family. Her father was Julius Goldman, a lawyer, her mother was Sarah (Adler) Goldman, a homemaker.
Goldman graduated in 1903 from Bryn Mawr College, where she took a double major in English and Greek. She went on to study archaeology at Radcliffe College, where she was the first woman to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship from Harvard in order to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She received her PhD in 1916, having written a thesis entitled The Terracottas from the Necropolis of Halae.
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Career
Goldman was the first woman to be appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study in 1936. She retired in 1947.
Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950. In 1966, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.
Death
Goldman died May 4, 1972, in Princeton, New Jersey.
See also
- Mary Hamilton Swindler
References
External links
- Works by or about Hetty Goldman at Internet Archive
- Biography at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Pottery from the Tarsus Excavations, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections
- Illustrations from the Tarsus Excavations, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections
Further reading
- Knox, Sanka (23 December 1956). "WOMAN SCHOLAR IS HONORED AT 75: Institute for Advanced Study Cites Hetty Goldman for Archaeological Work". New York Times.
- "Dr. Hetty Goldman of Institute For Advanced Study Dies at 90". New York Times. 6 May 1972. p. 38.
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