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Museum staff · Cataloguer · Scholar

Gustave Mendel

fl. 1904–1910

Museum staff member and cataloguer, active 1904–1910. Worked with Osman Hamdi Bey and Georges Nicole.

Life and work

  1. 1904
    Worked at the Constantinople museum, where in 1904 he arranged Georges Nicole's appointment to catalogue the Cypriot vases; he catalogued some 3,600 terracottas of the museum, leaving the Cypriot ones for a separate catalogue.

    Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift (Volume 30, 1910) (1910)

  2. 1904
    Official at the Constantinople museum who facilitated Nicole's appointment to classify and describe the Cypriot room in 1904.

    Georges Nicole, Catalogue des vases cypriotes du Musée de Constantinople (1906)

  3. 1904
    Friend of the author who helped arrange his cataloguing work at the Constantinople Museum in 1904; also named among the museum's authorities.

    Nicole, Georges (1880-1937), Catalogue des vases cypriotes du musée de Constantinople (1906), p. 1

  4. Undated
    Sent on a special mission to Brousse to check the general catalogue of antiquities of the Houdavendighiar museum, including the Cypriot statue.

    Dayot, Armand, L'Art et les artistes (1905)

  5. Undated
    Compiled the catalogue of Greek terracottas and sculpture of the Constantinople museum, which treats the Cypriot terracottas separately.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.14) (1909)

  6. Undated
    Owned sarcophagi at Constantinople

    The Primitive Sculpture of Cyprus (1926), p. 164

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Sources

  1. 1.Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift (Volume 30, 1910) (1910).
  2. 2.Georges Nicole, Catalogue des vases cypriotes du Musée de Constantinople (1906).
  3. 3.Nicole, Georges (1880-1937), Catalogue des vases cypriotes du musée de Constantinople (1906).
  4. 4.Dayot, Armand, L'Art et les artistes (1905).
  5. 5.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.14) (1909).
  6. 6.The Primitive Sculpture of Cyprus (1926).
  7. 7.1910, Review in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 30 of the Constantinople terracotta catalogue.

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