Count Michał Tyszkiewicz (4 December 1828, in

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– 18 November 1897, in

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) was a Polish

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, collector of antiquities and

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. He was a member of the Polish

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. He first excavated at

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in 1861–1862 and revisited

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in 1867–1868, building up a collection during his travels. It is now split between different locations in Lithuania, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Boston, Rome, and the Tyszkiewicz Palace at

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. A small part of it remains in Poland in the

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in Warsaw.Leszek Zinkow

Writings

*''Diary of a Journey to Egypt and Nubia'', Paris 1863. *''Memories of an old collector'', translated into English by Mrs. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, London 1898.

References

19th-century Polish archaeologists Polish art collectors Lithuanian archaeologists

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1828 births 1897 deaths People from Valozhyn {{Egyptologist-stub