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List Of Numismatists
A coin collector is different from a numismatist, which is someone who studies coins. Many collectors are also numismatists, but some are not. Likewise, not all numismatists collect coins themselves. * Andreas Alföldi * Martin Allen * Michel Amandry * Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão * Simone Assemani * Churchill Babington * Georges Bataille * Anselmo Banduri * Jacob de Bie * Carmen Arnold Biucchi * Mark Blackburn * Osmund Bopearachchi * Bartolomeo Borghesi * Claude Gros de Boze * Guillaume Budé * Andrew Burnett * Francesco Carelli * Celestino Cavedoni * Henry Cohen * Joe Cribb * Elena Abramovna Davidovich * Borka Dragojević-Josifovska * Théophile Marion Dumersan * Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher * Giuseppe Fiorelli * Martin Folkes * Suzanne Frey-Kupper * Julius Friedländer * Andrea Fulvio * Raffaele Garrucci * Shpresa Gjongecaj * Francesco Gnecchi * Philip Grierson * P. L. Gupta * Nicola Francesco Haym * Stefan Heidemann * David Hendin * G. Kenneth Jenkins * Dorota Mal ...
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Numismatist
A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Although use of the term numismatics was first recorded in English in 1799, people had been collecting and studying coins long before this, all over the world. The first group chiefly derives pleasure from the simple ownership of monetary devices and studying these coins as private amateur scholars. In the classical field amateur collector studies have achieved quite remarkable progress in the field. Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, and King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics. Harry Bass by comparison was a noted collector who was also a numismatist. The second group are the coin dealers. Often called professional numismatist ...
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Francesco Carelli
Francesco Carelli (8 October 1758 in Conversano – 17 September 1832 in Naples) was an administrative officer of the Kingdom of Naples and an important numismatist, coin collector and antiquarian An antiquarian or antiquary () is an fan (person), aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifact (archaeology), artifac .... He had a special interest in ancient coins and himself had an important collection of ancient Greek coins. In an extensive work, ''Numorum Italiae veteris Tabulae CCII'' (published posthumously in 1850) he put together all the known ancient coins of Italy. References 1758 births 1832 deaths Italian numismatists Italian antiquarians {{Coin-stub ...
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Raffaele Garrucci
Raffaele Garrucci (22 January 1812 – 5 May 1885) was a historian of Christian art. He was born in Naples to a wealthy family, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of fifteen, and was professed on 19 March 1853. He devoted himself to the study of the Church Fathers, also to Pagan and Christian antiquities; both he and the celebrated Giovanni Battista de Rossi became the principal disciples of Father Marchi. On his many journeys through Italy, France, Germany, and Spain, he collected much material for his archaeological publications. In 1854 he wrote for Father Charles Cahier's ''Mélanges d'Archéologie'', a study on Phrygian syncretism. Soon after he edited the notes of Jean L' Heureux on the catacombs of Rome (in manuscript since 1605); later an essay on the gilded glasses of the catacombs (1858), and another on the Jewish cemetery at the Vigna Randanini. In 1872 he began the publication of a monumental history of early Christian antiquities, entitled ''Storia dell'arte crist ...
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Andrea Fulvio
Andrea Fulvio (in his Latin publications and correspondence Andreas Fulvius; c. 1470–1527) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian active in Rome, who advised Raphael in the reconstructions of ancient Rome as settings for his frescoes. Fulvio was Raphael's companion and ''cicerone'' as they explored the ruins, Fulvio showing Raphael what was essential to be drawn and ex temporising on them. Fulvio published two volumes. One contained the first attempts at identifying famous faces of classical antiquity, Antiquity from numismatics, numismatic evidence, his richly illustrated ''Illustrium imagines'' of 1517, the portrait heads possibly by Giovanni Battista Palumba. The other was a guide to the city's antiquities, ''Antiquitates Urbis'', published in Sack of Rome (1527), the disastrous year 1527. For a more popular market, his ''Antiquitates Urbis'' were translated into Italian by Paolo Del Rosso and published at Venice in 1543 with the title '' Opera delle ...
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Julius Friedländer (numismatist)
Eduard Julius Theodor Julius Friedländer (25 June 1813 – 4 April 1884) was a German numismatist. Biography He was born on 25 June 1813 in Berlin. Friedländer's entire family embraced Protestant Christianity in 1820. After studying at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and traveling in Italy (1838–1839), he obtained a position at the ''Königliche Sammlung der Antiken-Münzen'' in Berlin in 1840. During his travels to Italy (1844–1847) with his friend Theodor Mommsen he acquired further numismatic material which he brought to Berlin. In 1868 he became director of the numismatic section of the Berlin Museum. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. From his literary remains Rudolf Weil published ''Repertorium zur Antiken Numismatik'', a supplement to Théodore Edme Mionnet's ''Description des Médailles Antiques'', Berlin, 1885. In 1891, in occasion of the 5th convention of German numismatists in Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ...
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Suzanne Frey-Kupper
Suzanne Frey-Kupper (born 1958) is a classical archaeologist and numismatist from Switzerland, who is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She specialises in the study of Greek, Roman and Punic coinage, in particular examining their role in historical processes and as social agents. Biography Frey-Kupper was born in Baden in 1958. She studied prehistory, archaeology and art history at the University of Zurich. She then studied for a PhD in Ancient History at the University of Lausanne. In 1985 she founded the Swiss Working Group on Coin Finds (SAF/GSETM), which she was the first chair of, and which subsequently led to the creation of the Inventory of Swiss Coin Finds (IFS/ITMS of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences). She has worked on a number of numismatic and archaeological projects, including as a project manager for the archaeological service of the Canton of Bern, at the site and museum of Aventicum, and from 2003 to work ...
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Martin Folkes
Martin Folkes PRS FRS (29 October 1690 – 28 June 1754), was an English antiquary, numismatist, mathematician, and astronomer. Life Folkes was born in Westminster on 29 October 1690, the eldest son of Martin Folkes, councillor at Law.Albert G. Mackey, M.D. An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences, New and Revised edition. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1894. p. 280 Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, he so distinguished himself in mathematics that when only twenty-three years of age he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected one of the council in 1716, and in 1723 Sir Isaac Newton, president of the society, appointed him one of the vice-presidents. On the death of Newton he became a candidate for the presidency, but was defeated by Sir Hans Sloane, whom, however, he succeeded in 1741; in 1742 he was made a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences; in 1746 he received honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. Folkes was a promin ...
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Giuseppe Fiorelli
Giuseppe Fiorelli (7 June 1823 – 28 January 1896) was an Italian archaeologist. His excavations at Pompeii helped preserve the city. Biography Fiorelli was born on 7 June 1823 in Naples. His initial work at Pompeii was completed in 1848. He was then imprisoned for some time because his radical approach to archaeology and strong nationalist feelings landed him in trouble with the king of Naples, Ferdinand II. During his time as a political prisoner, he produced a three volume work entitled ''History of Pompeian Antiques'' (1860–64). He subsequently became professor of archaeology at Naples University and director of excavations (1860–75), serving concurrently as director of the Naples National Archaeological Museum from 1863. With the unification of Italy in 1860, the legal status of Pompeii changed from being a royal possession from which monarchs could use the site to obtain antiquities for their private collections or to gift artifacts to illustrious foreign guests, ...
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Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Bratislava (Pozsony) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. Biography Endlicher studied theology and received minor orders. In 1828 he was appointed to the Austrian National Library to reorganize its manuscript collection. Concurrently he studied natural history, in particular botany, and East-Asian languages. In 1836, Endlicher was appointed keeper of the court cabinet of natural history, and in 1840 he became professor at the University of Vienna and director of its Botanical Garden. He wrote a comprehensive description of the plant kingdom according to a natural system, at the time its most comprehensive description. As proposed by Endlicher, it contained images with text. It was published together with the reissue of Franz Unger's ''Grundzüge der Botanik'' (Fundamentals of Botany). Endliche ...
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Théophile Marion Dumersan
Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque royale. Life The family's real surname was Marion but – to distinguish himself from his brothers – Théophile's brother altered his surname to "du Mersan", after the name of one of its lands. The young Théophile had already found a taste for the theatre by 1795 by learning to read Racine and Molière. In that year, aged 16, whilst his family was distressed by the Reign of Terror, Théophile found work under Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison, curator of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque royale. With his colleague Théodore-Edme Mionnet, future member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, he perfected a new system for classifying medals into geogra ...
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Borka Dragojević-Josifovska
Borka Dragojević-Josifovska, in Serbian: ''Борка Драгојевић-Јосифовска'' (1910 - 2004) was a Bosnian archaeologist, museum curator, numismatist and philologist, who was Professor of Classical Philology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, and who worked mainly on classical archaeology in North Macedonia. Biography Dragojević-Josifovska was born in 1910 in the Bosnian Serb village of Gornja Srbica, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in Classical Philology and Archaeology, awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. From 1948 to 1958 she worked as a curator at the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, where in 1956 she curated the museum's lapidarium. She was then appointed as a lecturer Latin at the Department of Classical Philology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, where she worked until 1976. From lecturer she was promoted to Senior Lecturer ...
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Elena Abramovna Davidovich
Elena Abramovna Davidovich (Russian language, Russian: Елена Абрамовна Давидович; 24 December 1922 - 5 December 2013) was a Russian Archaeology, archaeologist and numismatist, who specialised in the coinages of Central Asia. A founder of the discipline of archaeology in Tajikistan, Davidovich also argued that numismatics was a discipline equal to archaeology as a historical science. Early life and education Davidovich was born on 24 December 1922 in Krasnoyarsk.Умерла вдова ученого-востоковеда Бориса Литвинского Елена Давидович
(retrieved 2 May 2020).
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