Frederick William Hasluck

Who was Frederick William Hasluck?

Frederick William Hasluck was an English antiquarian, historian, and archaeologist.

Hasluck was educated at The Leys School and King's College, Cambridge. Graduating in 1904, he went to the British School at Athens. There he helped on excavations in Laconia, Greece namely in Geraki and Aggelona, Cyzicus and Bithynia, finding much new material, including an inscription of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and unpublished local coins. His most notable find was a large Roman bridge in Mysia, hitherto unrecorded, the Aesepus Bridge. There he also investigated the sites of the Makestos Bridge, White Bridge and Constantine's Bridge. In 1906 he toured Asia Minor with Richard M. Dawkins.

In 1913 being Assistant Director and Librarian of the British School in Athens Hasluck married Margaret Hardie. As a wedding present, Hardie chose a visit to Konya from the options offered her by her husband, and the couple spent the spring of 1913 there together. Frederick had long been interested in the interplay of Christianity and Islam within the Turkish Empire, and he was gradually to make this a central part of his work. The Haslucks were based in Athens and, over the next four years, had the opportunity to travel widely together in the southwest Balkans.