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Scholar · Traveller / antiquarian · Critic / journalist

Eugen Oberhummer

fl. 1886–1903 · Germany

German scholar and traveller, active 1886–1903. Worked with Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.

Life and work

  1. 1887
    First of two Cyprus journeys (1887 and 1891); his travel diaries were later edited (Bertele and Wacker 2004).

    CyprusRecke 2012, p. 104-105Given 2025

  2. 1887
    Wrote that he had seen the east and west walls of Marion and Arsinoe.

    Polis ChrysochousChilds et al. 2012, p. 21

  3. 1887–1888
    Made an island journey with Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, with detailed observations at Nea Paphos (Buchholz cites a letter of 16 March 1895 in Philadelphia) and a visit to the Apollo sanctuary at Kourion.

    CyprusBuchholz 1989

  4. 1888
    Published Griechische Inschriften aus Cypern (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie, 5 May 1888; Munich 1889), including Polis and Kourion texts.

    MunichCobham 1908

  5. 1890–1892
    Aus Cypern. Tagebuchblätter und Studien, Part I (Berlin 1890), Part II (1892).

    BerlinCobham 1908

  6. 1893
    Reviewed Ohnefalsch-Richter's Cyprus publications harshly in Bursians Jahresberichte 21 (1893), p. 46.

    Buchholz 1991, p. 5 n. 16

  7. 1903
    Die Insel Cypern. Eine Landeskunde auf historischer Grundlage, vol. I (Munich); his 1:500,000 map of Cyprus (Munich 1903) is listed in Cobham.

    MunichMerrillees 2016Cobham 1908

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Sources

  1. 1.H.-G. Buchholz (1989). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 11-12, 3-27.
  2. 2.Hans-Günter Buchholz (1991). “Tamassos-Phrangissa (1885)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 3-15.
  3. 3.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  4. 4.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  5. 5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  6. 6.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  7. 7.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  8. 8.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2005). “Towards a fuller history of the Cyprus Museum”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 35, 191-214. Online
  9. 9.E. Oberhummer (1889). “Griechische Inschriften aus Cypern”. Sitzungsberichte der K. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Munich.
  10. 10.E. Oberhummer (1890). Aus Cypern. Tagebuchblätter und Studien. Berlin.
  11. 11.E. Oberhummer (1903). Die Insel Cypern. Eine Landeskunde auf historischer Grundlage, Erster Teil. Munich.