Gennadius, Joannes
Besitzer Id00010467
EntitätstypPerson
GeschlechtMännlich
Biographische Angaben1844-1932
weitere 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).
Andere NamensformenGennadios
Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος
Weitere Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
Aktivität
Beginn (Jahr)1844
Ende (Jahr)1932
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
Beruf / Art der InstitutionBeamter
CharakterisierungKeine Characterisierung / Laie
Letzte Änderung2022-06-30 13:18:33