Michael Dumba

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Michael Stergio Dumba ( Μιχαήλ Δούμπας; * 1828 ; † December 15, 1894 in Vienna ) was director of the Austrian National Bank and Greek Consul General in Austria.

Life

Michael Dumba was the son of the entrepreneur Stergios Doumbas (1794-1870) from Vlasti in northern Greece and the Austrian Maria. Together with his brother Nikolaus , he also continued to run the M. Dumba brothers' wholesaling company that had emerged from their father's cotton and sugar trading business .

Together with his brother, he also had the "Dumba-Hof" built in the Weißgerberviertel in 1859/60 and the five-story Palais Dumba on Vienna's Ringstrasse in 1864/65 , with pictures by Hans Makart , Friedrich Schilcher and Gustav Klimt as well as sculptures by Caspar Zumbusch , Furnish Rudolf Weyr and Edmund Hellmer .

He had his office fitted out by Otto Wagner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiener Geschichtsblätter, Ed. 13-16, 1958, page 7
  2. ↑ Nina Riedl-Riedenstein:  Dumba, Nicolaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 188 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b The Dumbas in the Weißgerberviertel. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Entry about Palais Dumba on Burgen-Austria
personal data
SURNAME Dumba, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumba, Michael Stergio; Δούμπας, Μιχαήλ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Director of the Austrian National Bank, Greek Consul General in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1828
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1894
Place of death Vienna