DEBEVOISE, Neilson Carel. Jersey City, NJ 8.11.1903 — Harrisburg, PA 10.12.1992. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of Mesopotamia and Iran. Studied at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. 1929 (under Olmstead). From 1930 taught at University of Chicago, participated in Seleucia excavations. During WW II in Military Intelligence Service, posted in Egypt, after was abandoned scholarly career and continued in intelligence, but details of this career are not public. Married 1928 Martha Esther Ketchum (1905–1995), children. His 1938 book remained long the standard work of Parthian history.
Publications: Diss. Parthian Problems. Manuscript 1929.
– Parthian Pottery from Seleucia on the Tigris. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series 32. Ann Arbor 1934.
– A Political History of Parthia. 43+303 p. Chicago 1938, Persian transl. 1963, Russian 2004.
– Articles on glyptic and architecture of the Parthian and Sasanian periods, reviews, but nothing after 1947, e.g. “The Rock Reliefs of Ancient Iran”, JNES 1, 1942, 76-105.
Sources: M.J. Olbrycht & V.P. Nikonorov, Encyclop. Iranica online 2015; Wikipedia.
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