Frederick William Hasluck
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antiquarian, historian, and archaeologist.
Hasluck was educated at The Leys School
The Leys School
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and King's College
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, Cambridge
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. Graduating in 1904 , he went to the British School at Athens
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. There he helped on excavations in Laconi
Laconi
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, Geraki
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, Angelona, Cyzicus
Cyzicus
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and Bithynia
Bithynia
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, finding much new material, including an inscription of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and unpublished local coins. His most notable find was a large Roman bridge
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in Mysia
Mysia
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, hitherto unrecorded, the Aesepus Bridge
Aesepus Bridge
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. There he also investigated the sites of the Makestos Bridge
Makestos Bridge
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, White Bridge
White Bridge (Mysia)
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and Constantine's Bridge
Constantine's Bridge (Mysia)
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. In 1906 he toured Asia Minor
Asia Minor
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with Richard M. Dawkins.
In 1913 being Assistant Director (1911-15) and Librarian (1906-15) of the British School in Athens Hasluck married Margaret Hardie
Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck
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. As a wedding present, Hardie chose a visit to Konya
Konya
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(ancient Iconium) from the options offered her by her husband, and the couple spent the spring of 1913 there together. Frederick had long been interested in the interplay of Christianity
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and Islam
Islam
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within the Turkish Empire, and he was gradually to make this a central part of his work. The Haslucks were based in Athens and, over the next four years, had the opportunity to travel widely together in the southwest Balkans.
Hasluck's brilliant work was to be cut short by a combination of factors, one of which was his becoming the target of A.J.B Wace, an erstwhile colleague in Athens, who appears to have regarded Hasluck a potential rival. Returning to London, having prepared the ground by becoming part of the managing committee, Wace gained the post of Director of the School and, possibly motivated also by an animosity toward Mrs Hasluck, asked London to sack Hasluck. This they did. The Haslucks stayed in Athens working at the British Legation and assisted British wartime intelligence operations. But in 1916 Margaret accompanied her husband to Switzerland
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where he entered a tuberculosis
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sanatorium, only to die four years later February 22, 1920.
Today, enjoying something of a revival, Hasluck's work is slowly being recognised as being of the utmost importance.
Books about F. W. Hasluck
- Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of FW Hasluck 1878-1920, by David Shankland. Istanbul, Isis Press; 2004.