Glueck, Nelson (1900–1971)

US archaeologist and educator. He discovered 1,500 biblical sites in four decades of work in Transjordan and the Negev, including King Solomon's mines, Khirbet Nahasr, and the possible site of King Solomon's seaport at Ezion-geber. Glueck was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. An ordained rabbi, he gained his PhD from the University of Jena, Germany, returning to the USA in 1928 to teach at Hebrew Union College, of which he was later president (1947–71).