William Mitchell Ramsay - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Educated at Oxford, Ramsay held several prestigious professorships, including "First Professor of Classical Archaeology" and "Lincoln and Merton Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art" at Oxford, and "Regius Professor of Humanity" at the University of Aberdeen. He received gold medals from Pope Leo XII, the University of Pennsylvania, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and was knighted in 1906.

He was the first Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford University and pioneered the study of antiquity in what is today western Turkey.