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owners/00010467 Krutina, Friedrich

Gennadius, Joannes

Owner Id00010467
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1844-1932
Other InformationGreek entrepreneur, diplomat and patriot (07/01/1844 - 07/09/1932), resident for long periods in the London, where his library was based until 1922, when he donated c. 25,000 books (most of which he had collected between 1902 and 1922) to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, which in turn had agreed to build a dedicated facility in the name of Gennadius's father, George (1786-1854), in a plot of land adjacent to the School. The Gennadius Library officially opened in 1926.
Bod-inc: Greek minister at the Court of St James's; sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 28 Mar. 1895); Who Was Who 1929-40, 503-4; Francis R. Walton, `Portrait of a Bibliophile xii', Book Collector, 13 (1964), 305-26; L. A. Paton, Select Bindings from the Gennadius Library (Cambridge, 1924).
Variant NamesGennadios
Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=

Activity

Start (year)1844
End (year)1932
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
PlaceLondon (Geonames Id: 2643743)
Profession / Type of InstitutionCivil servant
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
Last Edit2022-06-30 13:18:33

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Gennadius, Joannes

Owner Id00010467
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1844-1932
Other InformationGreek entrepreneur, diplomat and patriot (07/01/1844 - 07/09/1932), resident for long periods in the London, where his library was based until 1922, when he donated c. 25,000 books (most of which he had collected between 1902 and 1922) to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, which in turn had agreed to build a dedicated facility in the name of Gennadius's father, George (1786-1854), in a plot of land adjacent to the School. The Gennadius Library officially opened in 1926.
Bod-inc: Greek minister at the Court of St James's; sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 28 Mar. 1895); Who Was Who 1929-40, 503-4; Francis R. Walton, `Portrait of a Bibliophile xii', Book Collector, 13 (1964), 305-26; L. A. Paton, Select Bindings from the Gennadius Library (Cambridge, 1924).
Variant NamesGennadios
Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=

Activity

Start (year)1844
End (year)1932
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
PlaceLondon (Geonames Id: 2643743)
Profession / Type of InstitutionCivil servant
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
Last Edit2022-06-30 13:18:33
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