Ellis Hovell Minns

Ellis Hovell Minns LittD FSA FBA
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Born	1874
Died	1953
Residence	Pembroke College, 2 Wordsworth Grove, Cambridge [1929]
Occupation	academic archaeologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1929.04.30 societies Society of Antiquaries

Notes

House Notes

1929.03.26 nominated
Professor of Archaeology

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (16 July 1874 – 13 June 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)[2] 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.

In the 1945 New Year Honours, Minns was appointed a Knight Bachelor, and thereby granted the title sir.[3]

Publications

External Publications

Scythians and Greeks (1913)
The Art of the Northern Nomads (1944).

House Publications

1942.01.20 Professor Ellis H. Minns read his paper on "Archseology in the U.S.S.R.," illustrated by lantern slide