Eugen Merzbacher (numismatist)
Eugen Merzbacher (born December 4, 1845 in Munich ; † September 18, 1903 there ) was a German numismatist and coin dealer.
Life
Merzbacher, son of the banker, coin dealer and patron Abraham Merzbacher , studied classical philology and archeology at the Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich in 1866, first in Munich , later in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1873 with a thesis on the ancient shekel . In Berlin, Julius Friedländer from the Münzkabinett was of decisive influence for him, as was the Breslau Rabbi Moritz Abraham Levy , both of whom supported him in his research into ancient Jewish coins.
Merzbacher returned to Munich and worked in his father's coin dealership, which he took over after his father's death in 1885 ( company Dr. Eugen Merzbacher coin dealership ). With its catalogs and auctions, the company was one of the leading German coin dealers. Merzbacher's main interest was the history of Jewish coins, and he also published in the field of numismatics from antiquity to the Renaissance.
He was married to Rosa, née Jaffé. Their daughter, Elisabeth Kitzinger, worked in Jewish welfare and married the Munich lawyer Wilhelm Kitzinger (* 1870). The art historian Ernst Kitzinger was his grandson.
Publications (selection)
- De siclis, nummis antiquissimis Iudaeorum. Dissertation Berlin 1873.
literature
- Georg Habich , In: Communications of the Bavarian Numismatic Society. Vol. 22/23, 1903/1904, ZDB -ID 501258-2 , pp. XII-XIV.
- Isaac Landman (Ed.): The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Tape. 7. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Co., New York NY 1948.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merzbacher, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German numismatist and coin dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1903 |
| Place of death | Munich |