Max Ohnefalsch-Richter

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| birth_place = Saxony, Germany

| birth_date = {{birth date|1850|04|07}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1917|02|06|1850|04|07}}

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Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (7 April 1850{{spnd}}6 February 1917) was a German archaeologist and antiquities seller.

He was born in Saxony in 1850 and arrived in British occupied Cyprus in 1878 to work as a journalist, in the following year he worked for the British Colonial government and the British Museum in carrying out excavations on behalf of Sir Charles Newton as well as private individuals. The discovered material was later sold to various European museums as well as in public auctions. In 1910, he was caught smuggling antiquities outside of Cyprus and was banned from carrying out further excavations.{{Cite web|title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG59684|access-date=2020-12-17|website=www.britishmuseum.org}}{{Cite journal|last=Fivel|first=Léon|date=1994|title=Lettre de Max Ohnefalsch-Richter à A. H. Smith, 1912|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_1994_num_21_1_1275|journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes|volume=21|issue=1|pages=23–28|doi=10.3406/cchyp.1994.1275}} He carried out a number of excavations in Cyprus, at the sites of Idalion, Politiko and Tamassos.{{Cite journal|last=Matthäus|first=Hartmut|date=2007|title=The Royal Tombs of Tamassos. Burial Gifts, Funeral Architecture and Ideology|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_2007_num_37_1_1504|journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes|language=fr|volume=37|issue=1|pages=211–230|doi=10.3406/cchyp.2007.1504|issn=0761-8271}}{{Cite journal|last=Fivel|first=Léon|date=1989|title=Ohnefalsch-Richter (1850-1917), essai de bibliographie|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_1989_num_11_1_1226|journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes|volume=11|issue=1|pages=35–40|doi=10.3406/cchyp.1989.1226}}{{Cite journal|last=Buchholz|first=Hans-Günter|date=1989|title=Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_1989_num_11_1_1224|journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes|volume=11|issue=1|pages=3–28|doi=10.3406/cchyp.1989.1224}} Together with John Myres he published a catalogue of the Cyprus Museum in 1899.{{Cite journal|last=Krpata|first=Margit|date=1992|title=Max Hermann Ohnefalsch-Richter, bibliography and biographical remarks|journal=Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus|pages=337–341}} He was the editor of two journals, The Owl. Science, Literature and Art (1888-1889) and The Journal of Cypriote Studies, with only one issue in 1889.{{Cite journal|last=Merrillees|first=Robert Stuart|date=1998|title=Cahier ou Bulletin d'études chypriotes ? Une revue des périodiques|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_1998_num_28_1_1334|journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes|volume=28|issue=1|pages=9–19|doi=10.3406/cchyp.1998.1334}}{{Cite journal|last=Frothingham|first=A. L.|date=1889|title=Archæological News|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/495962|journal=The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts|volume=5|issue=1|pages=79–133|doi=10.2307/495962|jstor=495962 |s2cid=245265177 |issn=1540-5079}} He died in Germany.{{Cite journal |last=Merrillees |first=Robert Stuart |date=2012 |title=III. "Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin. In the focus of new research" : An Anniversary Conference in Berlin, 8 May 2013 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_2012_num_42_1_1037 |journal=Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=475–477 |doi=10.3406/cchyp.2012.1037}}