Max Emil Robinow (1845-1900)

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Description
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Max Emil made his money in the shipping industry as part of Gottschadk and Co. He moved to Manchester and became a British citizen in 1875. He travelled to Egypt in 1895-6 and competed for high-quality Egyptian antiquities with the likes of Major William Joseph Myers, who donated his collection to Eton College. In an entry in his diary for 18th April 1896, Myers records:

"...to the Continental Hotel where I met [Carl] Reinhardt and Mr [Max] Robinow, a Manchester cotton manufacturer who is here in Cairo for his health. He has begun to collect Egyptian things and has a fine winged Isis in blue which I refused last year and Reinhardt sold to him. I much want to get it as it belongs to the same mummy as my winged scarab. He was very polite and pleasant and when he gets home I think he will let me have it for wh[ich] I shall be most grateful and it is lucky that it fell into such good hands."

Robinow was also friends with Manchester industrialist Jesse Haworth, who introduced him to the archaeologist W. M. Flinders Petrie. It is likely that Robinow received part of his collection from Petrie's excavations.

After much apparent wrangling about the loan of the material to Manchester Museum, the Robinow Collection was finally transferred in January 1959.


Creator
Campbell Price
Rights
Manchester Museum

Lifetime
Unknown

In collection
Cite as
Campbell Price, “Max Emil Robinow (1845-1900),” Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank, accessed March 29, 2024, https://www.mummies.manchester.ac.uk/items/show/150.

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