Person GND

Name

Blau, Consul Dr. Otto (21.04.1828 - 26.02.1879)

Orientalist and Prussian envoy to Constantinople.

Blau travelled in Asia Minor in 1854 and 1855, in Persia in 1857, and in Albania, Montenegro and Herzegovina in 1861.

Blau was a friend of the translator and collector Dr Emil Andreas Sperling (1819-1863) and also worked as a (coin) agent for Anton Prokesch von Osten.

In 1902 Blau's coins and papers were sold to the Münzkabinett Berlin by his widow.

Lit.: C. Ernst, Obituary, Numismatische Zeitschrift 1879, pp. 443-446; G. Blau, Trapezunter Komnenen, Berliner Blätter für Münz-, Siegel- und Wappenkunde 4, 1868, pp. 151-182.

Types

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GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/116200790 GND

VIAF

http://viaf.org/viaf/8133299 nomisma

Wikipedia [de]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Blau_(Orientalist) nomisma

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107542

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