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Rauch, Major Adolf von (25.08.1805 - 26.06.1877) |
Son of the Prussian General and secretary of war (1837-1841) Gustav von Rauch (1774-1841) and Karoline Christiane Amalie von Geusau (1780–1867). Marriage in 1802, divorce 1815. When A. Rauch left the military, he became a chamberlain for Princess Louise von Preußen. A member of the Berlin Numismatic Society upon its foundation in 1843, Rauch was eleceted its president in 1870 (in office until his death in 1877). A first collection of Major von Rauch, 4,000 Greek coins, including 28 gold, and nearly 1,000 silver, refers to an acquisition by the Münzkabinett Berlin in 1853 (on 1 November 1853, 7,000 Talers paid for). The second acquisition from von Rauch was the one of 2 April 1878, a selection of his collection. Rauch had started his career as a collector of talers, but soon focussed on ancient coins. An inventory by Rauch's own hand of his collection, and a record on the acquistions in 1853/1878 (by cabinet staff) in kept in the archives of the Münzkabinett Berlin. Rauch is buried in the family plot at the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof. Lit.: J. Friedländer - A. von Sallet, Das Königliche Münzkabinett ²(1877) p. 32. Compare ibid. p. 24; J. Friedländer, Necrolog, ZfN 5, 1878, pp. 217-219. |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/139121005 |
Wikipedia [de] |
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_von_Rauch_(Offizier) |
Wikipedia [en] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_von_Rauch_(1805-1877) |
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/121408 |
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https://viaf.org/viaf/100427202 |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29875230 |
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