Michał Tyszkiewicz (Egyptologist)
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Michał Tyszkiewicz (c. 1850)
Count Michał Tyszkiewicz (Lithuanian: Mykolas Tiškevičius) (4 December 1828 in Wołożyn – 18 November 1897 in Rome) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman collector of antiquities and amateur Egyptologist. He was a member of the Polish Tyszkiewicz family.
He first excavated at Luxor in 1861–1862 and revisited Egypt in 1867–1868, building up a collection during his travels. It is now split between different locations in Lithuania, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Boston, Rome, and the Tyszkiewicz Palace at Lahojsk, Belarus. A small part of it remains in Poland in the National Museum in Warsaw.[1]
Writings[]
- Diary of a Journey to Egypt and Nubia, Paris 1863.
- Memories of an old collector, translated into English by Mrs. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, London 1898.
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