Bartolomeo Borghesi

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Bartolomeo Borghesi
2 euro commemorative coin with the image of Bartolomeo Borghesis

Bartolomeo Count Borghesi (born July 11, 1781 in Savignano sul Rubicone , † April 16, 1860 in San Marino ) was an Italian epigraphist .

Borghesi studied in Ravenna and later in Bologna . In 1801 Borghesi went to Rome and began studying law there .

Borghesi created a scientific canon for his passion, numismatics . In addition, he was a member of numerous scientific academies in Europe ; so from 1836 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He had been a member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence since 1832. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1821, Borghesi moved to San Marino, where he began to publish the Osservazioni numismatiche , a complete work spanning seventeen decades with 170 articles dealing with coinage in the Roman Republic . This work is still very important in the numismatic world today. In 1838 Bartolomeo Borghesi was sent to Milan as the representative of the Republic of San Marino for the coronation of the Austrian emperor . In 1842 he was accepted as a member of the Prussian order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts .

One of his students was the epigraphist and archaeologist Adolphe Noël des Vergers .

In 2004 the Republic of San Marino dedicated a 2 euro commemorative coin and a silver commemorative coin worth 5 euros to Bartolomeo Borghesi .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Bartolomeo Comte Borghesi. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 25, 2015 .
  2. ^ Membership list of the Crusca
  3. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 45.
  4. ^ Orden Pour le Mérite for sciences and arts (ed.): The members of the order . tape 1: 1842-1881 . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7861-6189-5 ( orden-pourlemerite.de [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).