Frederick William  Green  ( 21.03.1869  -  20.08.1949 )

Frederick William Green was a British Egyptologist and excavator. He became interested in Egyptology at an early age and studied it under Kurth Sethe at Göttingen and later at Strasbourg. In Egypt, he excavated at a number of sites with Somers Clarke, William M. Flinders Petrie, and George Andrew Reisner. In 1897–1899, he directed the groundbreaking excavation of Hierakonpolis on behalf of the Egyptian Research Account, first together with James E. Quibell and alone for one season in 1899. There, he made numerous important discoveries, including the so-called 'Main Deposit' and its vast number of artefacts, and the Painted Tomb. In parallel, he worked for the Egyptian Governement Geological Survey in 1897–1900, and prepared maps for other surveys in 1905–1914. Later in life, he directed the Mond excavations at Armant in 1929–1930. He was Honorary Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, for a significant period of time in 1908–1949; he donated numerous objects to the museum, while his notebooks are distributed between the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the British Museum and the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge.