Percy Gardner

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birth_date = 24 November, 1846
birth_place = London
death_date = 17 July, 1937
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field = archaeology
work_institutions = Oxford
alma_mater = Christ's College, Cambridge
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Percy Gardner (24 November, 1846 – 17 July, 1937), English classical archaeologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christ's College, Cambridge (fellow, 1872).

He was Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge from 1880 to 1887, and was then appointed professor of classical archaeology at Oxford, where he had a stimulating influence on the study of ancient, and particularly Greek, art.

He also became prominent as an historical critic on Biblical subjects.

His brother, Ernest Arthur Gardner, was also a prominent archaeologist.

elected works

*"Stephani on the Tombs at Mycenae" The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 1. (1880), pp. 94-106
*"Types of Greek Coins" (1883)
*"A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias" (with F Imhoof-Blumer, 1887)
*"New Chapters in Greek History" (1892), an account of excavations in Greece and Asia Minor
*"Manual of Greek Antiquities" (with FB Jevons, 2nd ed. 1898)
*"Grammar of Greek Art" (1905)
*"Exploratio Evangelica" (1899), on the origin of Christian belief
*"A Historic View of the New Testament" (1901)
*"Growth of Christianity" (1907).