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Museum buyer · Collector · Archaeologist

Bruno Sauer

1861–1919 · Germany

Classical archaeologist. Collected at Egypt (Cairo trade). Acted for Antikensammlung der Universität Kiel.

Life and work

  1. 1909
    On a trip to Egypt acquired Cypriot pieces both for Kiel University and for his private collection.

    EgyptRecke 2012, p. 96

  2. 1975
    Part of his estate (Nachlass) reached the Kiel Antikensammlung; another part of his collection later passed to Hans-Günter Buchholz and is now in the Biblisch-Archäologisches Institut, Wuppertal.

    KielRecke 2012, p. 96Recke 2012, p. 111Recke 2012, p. 114

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Cypriot pieces from his estate (part of Kiel's 45 pottery vessels, Early Cypriot to Cypro-Historic, among other groups; the entry does not isolate Sauer's share)

    Antikensammlung der Universität Kiel1975Recke 2012, p. 111

  • Study collection pieces (pottery, fragments, terracottas, fibulae, stone tools) 'in part from the estate of Bruno Sauer, acquired in Egypt in 1909'

    Biblisch-Archäologisches Institut, WuppertalRecke 2012, p. 114

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.Bruno Sauer (Wikidata Q993731; GND 116977027). Online