Wilhelm Fröhner

Wilhelm Fröhner or Guillaume Frœhner (1834—1925) was a curator at the Musée du Louvre, an archaeological researcher and collector of antiquities in Paris. [ M.-C. Hellmann, "Wilhelm Froehner, un collectionneur pas comme les autres, 1834-1925," in A.-F. Laurens and K. Pomian, eds. "L'Anticomanie: La collection des antiquités au 18e et 19e siècles" 1992:251-64).] As a historian, he publicly rejected Gustave Flaubert's depiction of infanticide in Punic culture, described in "Salammbô". [Margarita Diaz-Andreu, "A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology" 2007:159.]

Among his private purchases was the Nazareth Inscription, an imperial Roman inscription in Greek that was sent to him from Nazareth.Unfortunately, part of his working library was lost in the fire at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in 2004. [ [http://www.anna-amalia-bibliothek.de/en/buchverlust.html "Help for the Anna-Amalia Library"] ]

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