Philipp Lederer

Philipp Lederer (born August 25, 1872 in Bamberg , † September 2, 1944 in Lugano ) was a German numismatist , coin and antique dealer.

After high school, he first worked as a businessman in his father's toy store, in 1898 he went to Munich to study classical archeology and classical philology . At the same time he worked in the coin shop of his relative Jacob Hirsch . In 1910 he received his doctorate in Munich with a thesis on ancient coinage by Segesta , one of the first studies on Greek numismatics based on a comparative stamp. Since 1911 he lived in Berlin, where he worked as a numismatic author, collector and dealer of coins and antiquities. His shop was right across from Museum Island at Kupfergraben 4. One of his customers was Sigmund Freud , who bought numerous antiques from him. As a Jew, he had to flee to Switzerland in 1939 and spent the last years of his life in Lugano.

Publications (selection)

• The tetradrachm coinage from Segesta. Munich 1910, (Munich, University, dissertation, March 10, 1910)

literature

• Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman antiquities. Collection Prof. Dr. Ernst Pfuhl †, Basel. Collection Dr. Philipp Lederer, Lugano and other property. Vases, terracottas, bronzes, marble figures and reliefs, glasses, jewelry. Auction in Lucerne, Wednesday, May 21, 1941. Lucerne, Galerie Fischer 1941, ( digitized version ).
• Margarete Bieber : Philipp Lederer. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 49, No. 1, 1945, p. 82, JSTOR 499942 .
• Herbert A. Cahn : Philipp Lederer. In: Swiss Numismatic Review . Vol. 32, 1946, pp. 69–73 (with photo and list of writings, digitized ; reprinted in: Herbert A. Cahn: Kleine Schriften zur Münzkunde und Archäologie. Archäologischer Verlag, Basel 1975, pp. 156–158).
• Christfried Tögel: Freud and Berlin (= AtV. 2188). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7466-2188-7 , pp. 116-118.