Museum staff · Lawyer / legislator
Paschalis Constantinides
1840–1937 · Cyprus
Cypriot museum staff member and lawyer. Sibling of Eustathios Constantinides; worked with Ioannis Economides.
Life and work
- 1883Co-signed the Greek community's farewell letter to Kitchener, which credited him with forming the Cyprus Museum (letter signed by the Archbishop, the Bishop of Kyrenia, the Abbot of Kykko, Mr Peristiany, Mr Pascal Constantinides, Mr Efstathios Constantinides and ten others).
- 13 May 1901Named to the sub-committee (with the Chief Justice, the Chief Cadi and Ioannis Economides) formed to raise funds for a new museum building as a Queen Victoria memorial.
Connections
3 peopleFamily
- Sibling of Eustathios Constantinides
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Herbert Kitchener1883
- Worked with Ioannis Economides1901
Sources
- 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2005). “Towards a fuller history of the Cyprus Museum”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 35, 191-214. Online
- 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 3.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.