Talk:Austen Henry Layard
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Shulgi 02:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] GCB
The 1911 article states that Layard received the GCB in 1878 on the occasion of the Berlin Conference. This cannot be correct, as the Berlin Conference was in 1884. Other places mention him receiving it upon his retirement as ambassador in Constantinople, yet in the text of the Cyprus Convention he is listed with GCB in his title. Is there some source to find the correct info reagrding this?
- The Congress of Berlin was in 1878 as its function was to place the terms of the treaty of San-Stefano signed between the Ottoman Empire and Russia earlier that year before the great powers for renegotiation. According to the dictionary of national biography Layard got his GCB in June 1878 presumably due to his success in bringing the Ottoman Empire and Britain closer together.
- Yusuf
- I see the problem. It was the Congress of Berlin, not the Berlin Conference. Looking at the Cyprus Convention, I noticed that Layard was not written with GCB on June 4, 1878, but he was on July 1, 1878. The Congress of Berlin began June 13, so that all seems consistent. --Mmm 08:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Antecedents
His maternal ancestry seems to be Portuguese and not Spanish. cf. Layard 220.247.242.14 10:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nineveh
It should be noted that "Nineveh" in the titles of Layard´s books means not just Kuyunjik but also other sites such as Khorsabad and, especially, the site of his most major excavations Nimrud. He seems to have believed that "Nineveh" was the name of an urban region covering a wide area, though he especially applies the name to Nimrud. He cannot really be credited, therefore, with the identification of Nineveh with Kuyunjik. (Anyway, notwithstanding some confusion over what area "Nineveh" covered, the identification with Kuyunjik was widely accepted, and I believe the ancient name appears in the right place on many much older maps and globes; in any case it seems that any confusion was only in the Western World and in the region the location of ancient Nineveh was always known).
