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Hofmeister

fl. 1870–1872 · Russia

Active 1870–1872.

Life and work

  1. c. 1870
    Urged the Minister of the Imperial Court, V. Th. Adlerberg, not to miss the chance to buy Cesnola's Golgoi finds as 'antiquities of a new kind' for the Hermitage; Cesnola asked 80,000 roubles and Johannes Doell was to go to Cyprus to catalogue them.

    St PetersburgKarageorghis & Bukina 2005, p. vii-viii

  2. c. 1870
    Elizabeth McFadden, reading the Hermitage letters, speculated that a missing fragment was shown to Gedeonov, 'then to the Hofmeister', then to Count Aldenberg and the Emperor Alexander; the Russian purchase failed.

    Marangou 2000, p. 198

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, O. Bukina (2005). Ancient Cypriote Art in Russian Museums. A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.