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Puritani, Laura, Maischberger, Martin and Sporleder, Birgit (Eds.): Konstantinopel – Samos – Berlin: Verpfändung, Fundteilung und heimliche Ausfuhr von Antiken am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net-ART-Books, 2022 (Schriften zur Geschichte der Berliner Museen, Volume 7). https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1014

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Laura Puritani (Ed.), Martin Maischberger (Ed.), Birgit Sporleder (Ed.)

Konstantinopel – Samos – Berlin

Verpfändung, Fundteilung und heimliche Ausfuhr von Antiken am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges

Schriften zur Geschichte der Berliner Museen

The years before World War I were marked by political upheaval and uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean. 1910–1914 excavations of the Royal Prussian Museums in Berlin took place on the island of Samos. Numerous finds from the excavation reached Berlin, only a part of them by way of the official division of finds. In 1913–1914 Germany also negotiated with the Sublime Porte about the pledging of antiquities from the Archaeological Museum of Constantinople/Istanbul with the aim of permanent possession by the Berlin museums. The articles presented in this volume shed light on the intensive entanglement between politics, business, science and culture in the late phase of the German Reich.

Laura Puritani studied “Lettere classiche” with a focus on archaeology and classical philology in Pavia, Italy. She completed a traineeship as an assistant curator at the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel and worked as an assistant professor in the Archaeology Department of Universität Marburg. She began working as a provenance researcher at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 2013, initially on a project basis, and in 2017 she published a catalogue on the objects with unknown ownership in the Antikensammlung. Today, she is responsible for provenance research in the field of archaeology.

Martin Maischberger studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Italian Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the University of Perugia, and in Rome. In 1995 he got his PhD at the FU Berlin with the dissertation “Marble in Rome. Delivery, storage and working places in the Imperial Era”. From 1995 to 2000 he worked at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, where he was responsible for the archive. He then became curator of the Museum of Classical Antiquities (Antikensammlung) of the Berlin State Museums. Since 2007 he has been Deputy Director of this museum. He published various exhibition and museum catalogs as well as studies on the history of Berlin's museums and of classical archaeology.

Birgit Sporleder studied classical archaeology, cultural studies and art history in Berlin and Havana. Drawing on her Master’s thesis on the early 20th-century antiquities trade, she curated the exhibition “Gefunden, gehandelt, gestundet” hosted by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Winckelmann Institute collections. From 2018, she worked as a trainee assistant curator at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. During her traineeship, her work focused on the archaeological collections from Central America. She currently works as a research associate for provenance research at the museum, and continues to focus on collections from Central America.

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Table of Contents
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Titelei
a-4
Inhalt
5
Hermann Parzinger, Christina Haak
Vorwort
7-13
Gabriele Mietke
Das ‚Museumsgeschäft‘ zwischen Deutschland und dem Osmanischen Reich
Verhandlungen um die Verpfändung des Archäologischen Museums in Konstantinopel 1913/1914
14-147
Laura Puritani, Martin Maischberger, Gabriele Mietke
Die Ausfuhr von Antiken aus Samos in den Jahren 1910–1914
148-279
Raik Stolzenberg
Samos zwischen den Fronten
Versuch der Rekonstruktion eines politischen Fundzusammenhangs der deutschen Archäologie
280-337
Anhang
339-356

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