Christopher Johnston (December 8, 1856[a] – June 26, 1914) was an American physician and Assyriologist, a scholar of ancient Mesopotamia.
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| Born | December 8, 1856 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | June 26, 1914 (aged 57) Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Occupation(s) | Physician, Assyriologist |
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Madeline T. Tilghman
(m. 1897) |
| Children | 2 |
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Personal life
editHe was born on December 8, 1856, in Baltimore, the son of the physician Christopher Johnston (1822-1891), a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland and the discoverer of Johnston's organ, and Sarah Lucretia Clay (1835-1879). Johnston married Madeline T. Tilghman on June 2, 1897, and had a son, Benamin Johnston, and a daughter, Eliza Gates Johnston, who died young.[2][3]
Johnston died at his home in Baltimore on June 26, 1914.[1]
Studies and career
editJohnston studied at the University of Virginia, where he earned three degrees: a B. Litt. in 1876, a B.A. 1878, and an M.A. in 1879. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Maryland in 1880, practiced medicine until 1888 in Baltimore (while concurrently studying various languages), then entered Johns Hopkins to study Assyriology and Semitics, taking the degree of Ph.D. in 1894. Johnston continued on to become a Professor of Oriental History and Archaeology at Hopkins. He published Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians (1896) and edited Ancient Empires of the East (1906). He was also responsible for writing the New International Encyclopedia's chapter concerning Egyptology.[1]
Works
edit- The Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 1898. (1894 Ph.D. dissertation)
- The book of the prophet Jeremiah: critical edition of the Hebrew text. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1895. (notes by Carl Heinrich Cornill)
Notes
edit- ^ His obituary in The New York Times cites his birth year as 1858,[1] whereas a genealogy article he penned in the William and Mary Quarterly[2] cites it as 1856.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Dr. Christopher Johnston; Johns Hopkins Professor of Oriental History and Archaeology Dies". The New York Times. June 28, 1914. p. 15. Retrieved June 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Johnston, Christopher (April 1913). "The Stith Family". The William and Mary Quarterly. 21 (4): 181–193. doi:10.2307/1914697. JSTOR 1914697.
- ^ Steiner, Bernard Christian, ed. (1910). Men of Mark in Maryland. Vol. II. B. F. Johnson, Inc. pp. 75, 79. Retrieved June 25, 2023 – via Google Books.