Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

M. von Baumgarten

1473–1535 · Austria

Noble.

Life and work

  1. 8 February 1508 – 28 March 1508
    Visited Cyprus on his way home from the Holy Land and Sinai, landing at Salina (Salamis harbour) on 8 February 1508 and staying until 28 March.

    CyprusCobham 1908, pp. 54-55

  2. 1508
    Described the ruins near Salamis harbour (an amphitheatre, a paved cave, huge stones and white marble pillars with defaced inscriptions) and, on the tenth day, Paphos as a once noble city now desolate and ruinous from earthquakes, with a large temple of Venus attributed to its founder; later authors cite him for Paphos being ruined.

    Salamis; PaphosCobham 1908, pp. 54-55Papuci-Władyka 2020Maier & Karageorghis 1984, p. 23 n. 1

  3. 1594
    His Travels were published in Latin at Nuremberg (1594) and in English in Churchill's collection (London, 1704; 8vo 1752); Cobham transcribes the 1704 English edition, vol. i, pp. 489-491.

    Cobham 1908, p. 54

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  3. 3.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  4. 4.M. von Baumgarten (1594). Travels.