Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Patron

Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen

1851–1928 · Germany

German patron. Acted for Max Ohnefalsch-Richter; worked with Rudolf Virchow.

Life and work

  1. 1893
    With Virchow, a key member of the network behind Kaiser Wilhelm II's 1893 funding of Ohnefalsch-Richter's Cyprus fieldwork

    Schmid 2025

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  2. 2.S. G. Schmid (2021). “Bernhard III. von Sachsen-Meiningen und die Altertumswissenschaften”. Herzog Bernhard III. von Sachsen-Meiningen 1851-1928, 129-146. Böhlau.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.