Epigrapher · Numismatist
M. M. Boeckh
fl. 1845–1903 · Germany
German epigrapher and numismatist, active 1845–1903.
Life and work
- UndatedEdited the Greek inscriptions from Paphos and Kition in the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum and explained inscriptions in which 'Kitian' means Cypriot, supporting the identification of Kittim with Cyprus.
- UndatedEdited the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum entries for Paphos and Citium inscriptions.
- UndatedExplained the Greek inscriptions in which the term KITTIM is rendered as a Cypriote, supporting Cyprus as the Kittim island.
Connections
2 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with Ludwig RossRoss's letter of 9 April 1845 from Piraeus to Boeckh enclosed the Cypriot inscriptions for the Berlin Academy F. Benary (report), with L. Ross (letter), 1845, Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, July 1845 (session of 28 July), p. 2501845
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Albert von SackBoeckh's CIG lemmata name Count Sack as donor; Sack's Angelato copy reached Boeckh Léon Fivel, 1997, Voyageurs à Chypre vers 1820 : un Prussien et un Piémontais
Sources
- 1.Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873; Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857; Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851, Types of mankind: or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographica (1854).
- 2.Dittenberger, Wilhelm, 1840-1906; Dittenberger, Wilhelm, 1840-1906. Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae : supplementum sylloges inscriptionum graecarum (1903).
- 3.Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873; Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857, Types of mankind : or, Ethnological researches based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographica (1854).
- 4.Léon Fivel, 1997, Voyageurs à Chypre vers 1820 : un Prussien et un Piémontais.
- 5.F. Benary (report), with L. Ross (letter), 1845, Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, July 1845 (session of 28 July).
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