Gustav Friedrich Konstantin Parthey (27 October 1798 – 2 April 1872) was a German

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and

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Life

Born in Berlin, Parthey was the son of (1745–1822),

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in the General Finance Directorate in Berlin, and Wilhelmine Nicolai (-1803), the eldest daughter of

Friedrich Nicolai Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller. Life Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller ''Nicolaisch ...

. His sister, the diarist

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(1800–1829) married the composer

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. Parthey graduated from the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin. Later he studied philosophy and

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in Berlin and Heidelberg, where he graduated in 1820. In the following years he travelled through France, England, Italy, Greece and the Orient. In 1824 he married Wilhelmine Mitterbacher from Karlovy Vary. From 1825 he lived again in Berlin. Due to the privileged position of his family, he never knew about material worries. Parthey was in charge of the and as a private scholar he was engaged in art and cultural history studies. He published several works. 1857 he became a member of the

Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (german: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin ...

. He died in Rome.

Publications

* ''Alexander von Humboldt Vorlesungen über physikalische Geographie. Novmbr. 1827 bis April, 1828. Nachgeschrieben von G. Partheÿ.''

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827/28 * ''De Philis insula commentatio'' (1830) * ''Siciliae antiquae tabula'' (1834) * ''Wanderungen durch Sicilien und die Levante'', 2 vol. and picture boards (1834—1840) * ''Das alexandrinische Museum'' (1837. price pamphlet crowned with a gold medal) * ''Vocabularium copticolatinum et lat-copt.'' (1844) * ''Itinerarium Antonini Augusti'' (1847, together with Pinder) * ''Wenzel Hollar. Beschreibendes Verzeichniß seiner Kupferstiche'' and ''Kurzes Verzeichniß der Hollar'schen Kupferstiche'' (1853) * ''Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander'' (1854) * ''Die Bildersammlung in Rudolstadt'' (1857) * ''Iamblichi demysteriis liber'' (1857) * ''Ravennas und Guido'' (1860, together with Pinder) * ''Deutscher Bildersaal'' (1861—1864) * ''Eusebii Pamphili Onomasticon'' (1862, together with Larsow) * ''Hieroclis synecdemus'' (1866) * ''P. Melas de chorographia libri tres'' (1866) * ''Mirabilia Romae'' (1869) * ''Dicuili liber de mensura orbis terrae'' (1869) * ''Jugenderinnerungen. Handschrift für Freunde.'' 2 volumes, Berlin Schade 1871; reissued as ''Das Haus in der Brüderstraße: Aus dem Leben einer berühmten Berliner Familie'' published by Gabriele Koebel; Berlin: Verl. Das Neue Berlin 1957 * ''Ein verfehlter und ein gelungener Besuch bei Goethe'' (1862, new edition 1883) * ''Die Mitarbeiter an Friedrich Nicolai's Allgemeiner Deutscher Bibliothek nach ihren Namen und Zeichen in zwei Registern geordnet''''Die Mitarbeiter an Friedrich Nicolai's Allgemeiner Deutscher Bibliothek nach ihren Namen und Zeichen in zwei Registern geordnet''
on WorldCat Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1973, Reprograph. Nachdr. d. Ausg. Berlin 1842.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parthey, Gustav 19th-century philologists German art historians German booksellers Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1798 births 1872 deaths Writers from Berlin