David Gordon Lyon
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| occupation = Theologian
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- {{Marriage|Mabel E. Harris|1910|1931|end=d.}}
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David Gordon Lyon (May 24, 1852 – December 4, 1935) was an American theologian.
Biography
David Gordon Lyon was born in Benton, Alabama on May 24, 1852, the son of a doctor.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169 |title=Recipients of Honorary Degrees |magazine=The Harvard Graduates' Magazine |volume=X |number=XXXVII |pages=169–170 |date=September 1901 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-david-gord/54752351/ |title=Dead of Dr David G. Lyon |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=8 |date=1935-12-04 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1875 he received his AB from Howard College in Marion, Alabama. (Howard is now Samford University and located in Birmingham). He studied at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary under Crawford Howell Toy, and went to Germany, and received his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1882, in the study of Syriac.{{cite journal|last=Pfeiffer|first=Robert H.|title=David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935)|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|year=1936|volume=70|issue=10|pages=552–54|jstor=20023182}} While there, he met Tosca Woehler, whom he married in 1883.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnKoco5TWfQC&q=%22Mabel%20E.%20Harris%22 |title=Harvard Alumni Bulletin |volume=XXXVIII |page=387 |date=1935 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books |quote=In 1883 he married Tosca Woehler of Leipsic, Germany. She died in 1904, and in 1910 he married Mabel E. Harris. She died in 1931.}}
He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School{{cite book|title=Unitarian year book|year=1902|publisher=American Unitarian Association|pages=136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cP0QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136}} from 1882{{cite news|title=The History of the Divinity School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5IBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA117|accessdate=2023-05-05|newspaper=Harvard Alumni Bulletin|year=1916|pages=114–18 |via=Google Books}} to 1910, when he assumed the Hancock professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages.{{cite news |title=Prof. Lyon to retire: He becomes professor emeritus after 40 years' service at Harvard |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/11/26/103577410.pdf |accessdate=2023-05-05 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=13 |date=26 November 1921}} Six years after Tosca Woehler's death (1904) he married Mabel E. Harris (d. 1931). He was the founding curator{{cite news|title=Founder of Semitic Museum, Professor of Languages, Dies: David G. Lyon Had Been Teaching at Harvard Since 1882|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1935/12/5/founder-of-semitic-museum-professor-of/|accessdate=24 December 2010|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson|date=5 December 1935}} of the Semitic Museum.{{cite book|title=General catalogue issue|year=1909|publisher=Harvard University, C.W. Sever|pages=660|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nA0gAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA660 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books}} He retired from Harvard in 1921.
He died at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston on December 4, 1935.
Diaries
David Gordon Lyon kept a diary for over 30 years of his life. In 2014, the Semitic Museum began a project entitled "Harvard and the Ancient Near East: The David Gordon Lyon Diaries", to digitize and transcribe the volumes into a human and machine-readable form.{{Cite web |url=http://pioneers.darthcrimson.org/lyon-diaries/ |title=Harvard and the Ancient Near East: The David Gordon Lyon Diaries | Digital Pioneers @ Harvard University |access-date=2023-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903105330/http://pioneers.darthcrimson.org/lyon-diaries/ |archive-date=2014-09-03 |url-status=dead |first1=Gosia |last1=Stergios |first2=Christopher |last2=Morse}}
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