Hetty Goldman

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[1] and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East.[2]

Hetty Goldman
Born	December 19, 1881 New York City, U.S.
Died	May 4, 1972 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College Radcliffe College
Occupation	Archaeologist
Parent(s)	Julius Goldman Sarah Adler
Relatives	Marcus Goldman (paternal grandfather) Samuel Adler (maternal grandfather) Ashton Sanborn (brother-in-law)

Early life

Hetty Goldman was born on December 19, 1881, in New York City. She was a member of the Goldman–Sachs banking family.[3] Her father was Julius Goldman, a lawyer, her mother was Sarah (Adler) Goldman, a homemaker.[4]

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.

Career

Goldman was the first woman to be appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study in 1936.[5] She retired in 1947.[1]

Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.[6] In 1966, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.[5][7]

Death

Goldman died May 4, 1972, in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][5]

See also

• Mary Hamilton Swindler

References

1. "Hetty Goldman". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
2. Cohen, Getzel M.; Joukowsky, Martha Sharp (2006). Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists. University of Michigan Press. p. 299. ISBN 0472031740.
3. "Hetty Goldman: Life". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
4. Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1990. pp. 302–303. ISBN 0-8108-22016.
5. "Noted Woman Educator Dies". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. May 7, 1972. p. 41. Retrieved May 29, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter G" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
7. "Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved July 29, 2014.

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.