Ellis Minns

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Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874 - 1953) was a British academic and archaeologist whose studies focused on Eastern Europe.

Educated at Charterhouse, he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge studying the Classical tripos including Slavonic and Russian.^[1] He lived briefly in Paris before moving to St Petersburg in 1898 to work in the library of the Imperial Archaeological Commission. Returning to Cambridge in 1901 he began lecturing in Classics.

In 1927, he was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology, a post he held until 1938. He wrote widely with books including Scythians and Greeks (1913) and The Art of the Northern Nomads (1944). He was an authority on Slavonic icons and in 1943 cleared the Russian translation engraved on the ceremonial "Sword of Stalingrad" presented by the British people in homage to the defenders of the Russian city.

References

↑ "Minns, Ellis Hovell (MNS893EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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Preceded by Sir William Ridgeway	Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge University 1926 - 1938	Succeeded by Dorothy Garrod

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 109902912 LCCN: nr90013452 ISNI: 0000 0000 8346 7140 GND: 101792123 BNF: cb124786423

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Name	Minns, Ellis Hovell
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Date of birth	1874
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Date of death	1953
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