Dr. William Foxwell Albright, director of the American Scholl for Oriental Research in Palestine, has been appointed as head of the Department of Semitic Languages in the Johns Hopkins University, it was announced today by Dr. Joseph S. Ames, newly elected president of the university. Dr. Albright will take charge when the fall session opens in October.
Since the death, in December, 1926, of Dr. Paul Haupt, who filled the W. W. Spence professorship, and Dr. Aaron Ember, who was burned to death three years ago, there has been no director of the Semitics department. The work has been under the direction of the Rev. Dr. William Rosenau, rabbi of the Eutaw Place Temple, and Frank R. Blake, associate professor.
Since 1920, Dr. Albright has served as a member of the archaeological advisory board of the Palestinian government.
Born in Chile in 1891, Dr. Albright took his bachelor of arts degree at Upper Iowa University in 1912. He then came to Johns Hopkins as a graduate student. He held the Rayner fellowship from 1914 until 1916, when he received his doctor’s degree. He was an instructor in the Semitics department from 1916 to 1917 and a Johnston scholar during 1917-1918.
In 1919 Dr. Albright left for Pales tine, having won the Thayer fellowship in a competitive examination against many brilliant archaeological students in the country. He assumed his duties as acting head of the American School for Oriental Research in 1920.
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