David George Hogarth

Commander Hogarth (1918)

David George Hogarth CMG FRGS FBA (23 May, 1862 – 6 November, 1927), also known as D. G. Hogarth, was a British orientalist archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1909 to 1927.

Hogarth was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the First World War and served with the Naval Intelligence Division. During 1916, he was the acting director of the Arab Bureau, and was later responsible for delivering the Hogarth message.

Quotes

The Nearer East (1902)

• The Nearer East is a term of current fashion for a region which our grandfathers were content to call simply The East. Its area is generally understood to coincide with those classic lands, historically the most interesting on the surface of the globe, which lie about the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Pt. 1, ch. 1, p. 1

• Fifty years ago the author of Eothen saw the portal of the East in the walls of Belgrade. To-day the western visitor...would not expect to find himself in the "East" until he should sight the minarets of Adrianople, or, at earliest, the three mastoid hills of Philippopolis.
  • Pt. 1, ch. 1, p. 1

• The Austrian occupation of Herzegovina, Bosnia, and the sanjak of Novi-Bazar, and the creation of independent Servia and Rumania, and an all but independent Bulgaria, won the basin of the Lower Danube for the West.
  • Pt. 1, ch. 1, p. 2

External links

• Encyclopedic article on David George Hogarth on Wikipedia