Giovanni Anastasi (dealer)
Giovanni Anastasi , also Giovanni d'Anastasi , Jean d'Anastasy , Ioannis Anastasiou (* 1765 in Northern Greece , † August 6, 1860 in Alexandria ) was a Greek merchant and antique dealer active in Egypt.
Life
Giovanni Anastasi was born in what was then Ottoman Northern Greece, either in Thessaloniki or Serres . His father went to Egypt around 1797, where he set up a business as a supplier to the French troops, but went bankrupt after they were driven out. Giovanni was able to build up a flourishing business as a trader, especially grain, and shipowner, and from 1828 to 1857 he worked as the Swedish consul in Egypt. In addition to his other businesses, he began trading Egyptian antiquities, which he acquired directly from the local population in Saqqara and Thebes, for example. In 1828 he and Francis Barthow sold a large collection of around 6000 pieces via Livorno in Italy to the Dutch government for the Museum in Leiden , another in 1839 to the British Museum and a third collection of 1129 numbers was auctioned in Paris in 1857. He bequeathed part of his fortune to Swedish charities and a large sarcophagus to the Stockholm Museum .
He should not be confused with Giovanni d'Athanasi (1798–1854), who was also a Greek antiques dealer in Egypt .
literature
- Catalog d'une collection d'antiquités égyptiennes, par M. François Lenormant . Cette collection ... rassemblée par M. d'Anastasi consul général de Suede à Alexandrie sera vendue aux enchères publiques rue de Clichy no.76 ,. les ... 23 ... 24 ... 25 ... 26 ... 27 juin 1857 . Paris 1857 ( digitized ).
- Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 .
- Vassilis I. Chrysikopoulos: A l'aube de l'égyptologie hellénique et de la constitution des collections égyptiennes: Des nouvelles découvertes sur Giovanni d'Anastasi et Tassos Neroutsos . In: P. Kousoulis, N. Lazaridis (Eds.): Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists . Peeters, Leuven 2013, p. 2147 ff. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Giovanni Anastasi in the British Museum database
- Giovanni Anastasi at the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anastasi, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | D'Anastasi, Giovanni (full name); D'Anastasy, Jean; Anastasiou, Ioannis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek merchant and antique dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northern Greece |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1860 |
| Place of death | Alexandria |