Hetty Goldman was born on December 19, 1881 in New York City. Her father was
a lawyer and her Uncle Marcus Goldman was the co-founder of Goldman, Sachs and
Company, an investment company. Hetty went to her Uncle Julius Sach's School for
Girls, that is where she got interested in archeology. She graduated from Bryn
Mawr College in 1903. She was awarded a scholarship to go to the American School
of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece from 1910-1912. She received a Ph.D. in
archeology from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1916. She led a
major expedition in Tarsus, near the southeast coast of Turkey. Hetty wrote
several books about her excavation and they discoveries they made. In 1936 Hetty
was the first woman to be appointed a professor at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Princeton, NJ. She was very active in sponsoring Jewish refugees
fleeing the Nazis in Germany. She died on May 4, 1972 in Princeton, NJ.
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