Person GND

Name

Missong, Dr. Alexander (18.05.1837 - 24.02.1885)

Dr A. Missong of Vienna.

Lawyer and notary in Vienna. Coin collector and numismatist. Missong later specialised in the coins of the Roman emperor Probus. He was the leading force in the so-called Missong-Kreis (circle) together with Otto Voetter, Andreas Markl, Theodor Rohde, Josef Kolb and Franz Trau).

Purchase by the Münzkabinett Berlin in 1871 and 1878.

Lit.: Numismatische Zeitschrift 84/85, 1970, p. 137; K. Reitmann, Der Münzenhandel in Österreich (Eine historische Studie), Numismatische Zeitschrift 71, 1946, pp. 92-112, 105.

Types

previous Owner Info

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/117578983 GND

VIAF

http://viaf.org/viaf/25383627 nomisma

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