Austen Henry Layard

Si Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC ( /ˈɔːstɪn ˈhɛnriː ˈlɛərd/; 5 Marso 1817 – 5 Hulyo 1894) ay isang Ingles na manlalakbay, arkeologo, dalubhasa sa kuniporme, mananalaysay sa sining, dibuhante, kolektor, politiko at diplomatiko. Mas-kilala siya bilang manghuhukay ng Nimrud at Niniveh, kung saang natagpuan niya ang isang malaking proporsiyon ng kilalang Assyrian palace relief, at noong 1851 ang aklatan ni Ashurbanipal.

The Right Honourable Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Nasa puwesto 12 Pebrero 1852 – 21 Pebrero 1852
Monarko	Reyna Victoria
Punong Ministro	Lord John Russell
Nakaraang sinundan	The Lord Stanley of Alderley
Sinundan ni	Lord Stanley
Nasa puwesto 15 Agosto 1861 – 26 Hunyo 1866
Monarko	Reyna Victoria
Punong Ministro	The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell
Nakaraang sinundan	The Lord Wodehouse
Sinundan ni	Edward Egerton
First Commissioner of Works
Nasa puwesto 9 Disyembre 1868 – 26 Oktubre 1869
Monarko	Reyna Victoria
Punong Ministro	William Ewart Gladstone
Nakaraang sinundan	Lord John Manners
Sinundan ni	Acton Smee Ayrton
Ambassador sa Imperyong Otomano
Nasa puwesto 1877–1880
Monarko	Reyna Victoria
Nakaraang sinundan	The Marquess of Salisbury
Sinundan ni	The Earl of Dufferin
Personal na detalye
Isinilang	5 March 1817 (1817-03-05) Paris, Pransiya
Yumao	5 Hulyo 1894(1894-07-05) (edad 77) London, England
Kabansaan	Briton
Partidong pampolitika	Liberal
Asawa	Mary Enid Evelyn Guest

Mga karagdagang babasahin

• Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adventure. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978 (hardcover, ISBN 0-07-007030-X); New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 (paperback, ISBN 0-442-28260-5).
• Jerman, B.R. The Young Disraeli. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
• Kubie, Nora Benjamin. Road to Nineveh: the adventures and excavations of Sir Austen Henry Layard (1964; 1965 in the UK)
• Larsen, Mogens T. The Conquest of Assyria. Routledge. 1996. ISBN 0-415-14356-X – the best modern account of Layard.
• Lloyd, Seton. Foundations in the Dust: The Story of Mesopotamian Exploration. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1981 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05038-4).
• Waterfield, Gordon. Layard of Nineveh. London: John Murray, 1963.
• Ang artikulong ito ay nagsasama ng teksto mula sa isang lathalatin na nasa dominyong publiko na ngayon: Chisholm, Hugh, pat. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (sa wikang Ingles) (ika-11 (na) edisyon). Cambridge University Press. {{cite ensiklopedya}}: Missing or empty |title= (tulong)CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
• Kuneralp Sinan (ed.). The Queen's Ambassador to the Sultan. Memoirs of Sir Henry A. Layard's Constantinople Embassy 1877-1880. The ISIS Press, Istanbul 2009. ISBN 9754283958.
• Silverberg, Robert. The man who found Nineveh. The story of Austen Henry Layard. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1964.

Mga kawing panlabas

May koleksyon ng mga sipi ang Wikiquote sa Ingles tungkol sa paksa ng artikulong ito.

Austen Henry Layard

• Nineveh and its Remains (vol. 1) (1849)
• Nineveh and its Remains (vol. 2) (1849)
• The Monuments of Nineveh (1849)
• The Monuments of Nineveh (1853)
• A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853)
• The Monuments of Nineveh (1849–53)
• Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853).
• A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh (1854)
• The Ninevah Court in the Crystal Palace (1854)
• Autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid (vol. 1) (1903)
• Autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid (vol. 2) (1903)
• Layard Papers digitized at the British Library
• Padron:Hansard-contribs

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