Ivan de Chaudoir

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Baron Iwan Maximilianowitsch de Chaudoir ( Russian Иван Максимилианович де Шодуар ; * 1858 on the Ivaniza estate near Zhytomyr ; † May 5, 1919 in Schytomyr) was a Russian patron .

Life

Chaudoir was the son of the entomologist Baron Maximilien de Chaudoir , grandson of the numismatist Baron Stanislas de Chaudoir and great grandson of the merchant Jan Joseph Chaudoir , who had made a great fortune. Due to the inherited fortune, Chaudoir acted as a patron and supported scientific, cultural, sporting and religious institutions.

Villa Chaudoir, Zhytomyr

Chaudoir created the Chaudoir Park in Zhytomyr (now Gagarin Park for Culture and Recreation) and donated it to the city of Zhytomyr in his will. In 1903 he had a villa built in Zhytomyr. In his villa he transferred in 1908 from the family estate Iwniza (now Rajon Andrushivka ) in two stages, the family library with over 30,000 volumes, the rich art gallery and the numismatic collection of his grandfather. In that year the private lecturer in Slavic Studies at the University of Moscow KS Kusminsky stayed in Zhytomyr and studied the holdings in Chaudoir's library, in which he discovered rarities. Soon 92 old Cyrillic printed books were given as gifts to the library of the State Historical Museum by Kusminski .

Chaudoir died as a result of a heart attack . He was buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Zhytomyr. A regional museum has been set up in the Villa Chaudoir. The villa was destroyed in the German-Soviet War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Є. А. Біленький: РОДИННИЙ АРХІВ ШОДУАРІВ У ЗІБРАННЯХ ІНСТИТУТУ РУКОПИСУ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ БІБЛІОТЕКИ УКРАЇНИ ім. В. І. ВЕРНАДСЬКОГО . In: Архіви України . No. 4–6 , 2000 ( [1] accessed August 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ Борис Дубман: Сокровища баронов Шодуаров (accessed August 1, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Chaudoir, Ivan de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaudoir, Iwan Maximilianowitsch de (full name); Шодуар, Иван Максимилианович де (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian patron
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivitsa near Zhytomyr
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1919
Place of death Zhytomyr