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_id: 00010467
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: e-uk-en
      characterisation: noc
      end: 1932
      geonamesId: 2643743
      place: London
      professionOrType: cse
      start: 1844
  biographicalInformation: 1844-1932
  externalId:
    - 'https://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id='
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Gennadius, Joannes'
  note: |-
    Greek 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).
  type: per
  variants:
    - Gennadios
    - Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος
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