Pierre Mavrogordato

Pierre Mavrogordato or Peter Mavrogordato (born June 29, 1870 in Nikolajeff near Odessa , † March 29, 1948 in Römhild ) was a Greek archaeologist and collector of antiquities. He founded the Waldhaus settlement near Römhild. Parts of his extensive collection of art objects are now exhibited in Glücksburg Castle and the German Toy Museum in Sonneberg .

Life

Villa Waldruh-Pierato

Mavrogordato came from the well-known Phanariotic family Mavrokordatos . He studied at the Odessa University and became director of the museum there. He conducted archaeological excavations in the former Greek colony of Olbia , an ancient city on the northern Black Sea coast , and participated in the excavations of Pompeii for seven years . He bequeathed finds from the Roman Tyra at the mouth of the Dniester to the Odessa Museum.

Alfred Götze , the first director of the Römhilder Steinsburg Museum, visited Mavrogordato in 1906 at his place of work at the Imperial Museums in Berlin. He followed an invitation to Römhild and fell in love with the landscape. As early as 1910, he acquired a large property between the Großer and Kleiner Gleichberg near Römhild and built the villa settlement PIERATO with three residential buildings and a farm building with a gardener's and chauffeur's apartment. The name is an artificial word, formed from the first names of Pierre and Erato Mavrogordato. The couple lived in Berlin and stayed at the Pierato mainly in the summer months and on special holidays before moving to Römhild permanently from 1936. Pierato was the foundation stone for the later Waldhaus colony near Römhild. He was appointed Privy Councilor in Saxony-Meiningen by Duke Bernhard .

Mavrogordato also acted as a consultant and dealer. He helped the Frankfurt industrialist Friedrich Ludwig von Gans create the largest private collection of antiquities in Germany. She bequeathed her to the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , to which Mavrogordato had already been involved as a benefactor. The Berlin Antikensammlung was restructured and redesigned by Mavrogordato in 1917. After 1933 he helped the collector Jakob Hirsch to get his collection out of Germany.

His wife Erato, who is one year younger than him, made artist and character dolls in Römhild. Some of them are exhibited today in the Museum Schloss Glücksburg in Römhild and in the German Toy Museum in Sonneberg . Erato was also a collector of antique objects, she bequeathed one vase to the British Museum in 1907 , and sold another to the Aachen Collection of Antiquities.

They also excavated the property in 1914 and 1928 and found Celtic coins, among other things.

Pierre and Erato both died in 1948; they are buried in Römhild.

Collections

He bequeathed his first collection to the Odessa Museum. He sold his later antique collection to the German Toy Museum between 1938 and 1944. He was also the owner of the Daphne pitcher, now in the Corning Museum of Glass . He sold 145 objects to the British Museum and donated 16 more.

The collection in Römhild

Mavrogordato donated his archaeological private collection to the Steinsburg Museum in 1929 . It included archaic Corinthian and classical Attic vessels and Hellenistic terracottas from Ukraine, as well as gold and silver jewelry. Another focus is on Egyptian works of art from the Hellenistic-Roman period, late Egyptian faience figurines , millefiori glasses and a mummy mask from the 1st century AD. When Mavrogordato died, the exhibition was closed and the collection was put into storage. At the end of the 1970s, most of the objects were finally transferred to the Meiningen State Museums . The collection has been on public display in the Museum Schloss Glücksburg in Römhild since 2007 .

The stamp collection

Mavrogordato was also a philatelist , and his collection on the Russian Post in Turkey was shown at IPOSTA Berlin 1930. This was also shown at SITEB (Salon International du Timbre, Bruxelles) from May 25th to June 3rd, 1935.

Web links

• Information on Pierre Mavrogordato and his collections
• Pierre Mavrogordato and the fake tiara of the Saitaphernes

literature

• Günther Schörner : From Odessa to Römhild. Pierre Mavrogordato and his collection of antiquities. In: Angelika Geyer (Ed.): 1864-2006. 160 years of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Jena. Thuringian collections in the context of international networks. Colloquium volume of the Jena conference on October 28, 2006. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2008, pp. 118–130.
• Günther Schörner, Hadwiga Schörner: Pierre Mavrogordato and his collection of antiques: The inventory in Römhild (Part 1). In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Franconian History Association 25, 2010, pp. 181–250.
• Günther Schörner, Hadwiga Schörner, Jan Bemmann: Pierre Mavrogordato and his collection of antiques: The holdings in Römhild (Part 2). In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch Fränkisches Geschichtsverein 27, 2012, 193–263.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.smb.museum/smb/media/news/16363/ANtTagderSchenkung.pdf
2. ↑ National Museums in Berlin, report 1917
3. ↑ http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=394150&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!!%2F15489%2F!%2F%2F!%2FBlack+figure % 2F!% 2F% 2F !!% 2F% 2F !!!% 2F & orig =% 2Fresearch% 2Fsearch_the_collection_database% 2Fadvanced_search.aspx & currentPage = 2 & numpages = 10
4. ^ Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia, Old Thuringia: Volume 6, H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1963
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ http://cophila.forumsclub.com/t589-iposta-berlin-1930
7. ↑ http://www.philabooks.com/Liste.asp?A=Liste&L=LI&Kat=73&Kat1=1735&SORT=2