Elie Borowski

Elie Borowski (born May 27, 1913 in Warsaw , † January 14, 2003 in Jerusalem ) was a leading dealer in ancient art .

Life

Elie Borowski studied Jewish Studies , Semitic Studies and Near Eastern Classical Studies in Poland, at the universities in Berlin and Rome , the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Padua , the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome , the École pratique des hautes études and the École du Louvre in Paris .

In August 1939 Borowski registered with a Jewish volunteer association in France, at the beginning of the Second World War he became a member of the Polish Division in the French Army. After serving against the advancing Germans, this unit withdrew to Switzerland in 1940, where its members were interned until the end of the war. Borowski was able to continue studying at the University of Geneva , where he received his doctorate in 1946 with a thesis on East Asian stamps and cylinder seals in Swiss collections. After the war, Borowski worked as a research associate at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto , where he became a Canadian citizen. However, he soon moved back to Basel , Switzerland, where he became one of the most important dealers in ancient works of art.

Borowski brought his important private collection to the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, which he founded and opened in 1992 .

Fonts

• Cylindres et cachets orientaux conservés dans les collections suisses. Contribution to the history of the glyptique en Asie occidentale. Ascona 1947

literature

• Jürgen Thimme : Art of the Sardinians until the end of the Nuragic period. Elie Borowski Collection . Recordings by Albert Hirmer a. Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer. Prehistoric State Collection Munich. Munich, Hirmer-Verlag, 1983, 85 pp. ISBN 3-7774-3630-5

Web links

• Antique works of art acquired from Borowski by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston