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About Thomas Whittemore
Thomas Whittemore was an American scholar and archaeologist who founded the Byzantine Institute of America. His close personal relationship with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first president of the Turkish Republic, enabled him to gain permission from the Turkish government to start the preservation of the Hagia Sophia mosaics in 1931.
Everything about Thomas Whittemore →- Occupation
- anthropologist, archaeologist, art historian
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 2, 1871
- Died
- June 8, 1950