Person

Hasluck, F. W. (Frederick William), 1878-1920

1878-1920

English antiquarian and archaeologist Frederick William Hasluck headed for the British School in Athens after graduating with a first class degree in Classics from Kings’ College in London in 1904. His excavations in Greece included several involving ancient bridges; he later became assistant director (1911-1915) as well as librarian (1906-1915). In 1913, he married Margaret Hardie and the two spent the spring together in Konya in Turkey (ancient Iconium); though based at the School in Athens, they also worked in the Balkans. Hasluck wrote extensively, especially about Christianity within the Islamic Turkish Empire. The managing committee of the BSA, influenced by a former colleague, fired Hasluck in 1915. The couple remained in Athens, helping with British wartime intelligence, but the following year they moved to Switzerland where Hasluck entered a tuberculosis sanatorium and died four years later.