by Gloria Polizzotti Greis (Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2006). In 1905, to the consternation of her family and in defiance of convention, the 48-year-old Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg took up the practice of archaeology. In the nine years before the First World War, she successfully excavated twenty-one sites in Austria, acquiring the patronage of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I and German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Mentored by the most important archaeologists of her time, the Duchess became an accomplished fieldworker and an important figure in the archaeology of Central Europe. Her collections now reside at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard.
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A Noble Pursuit: the Duchess of Mecklenburg Collections
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by Gloria Polizzotti Greis (Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2006). In 1905, to the consternation of her family and in defiance of convention, the 48-year-old Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg took up the practice of archaeology. In the nine years before the First World War, she successfully excavated twenty-one sites in Austria, acquiring the patronage of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I and German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Mentored by the most important archaeologists of her time, the Duchess became an accomplished fieldworker and an important figure in the archaeology of Central Europe. Her collections now reside at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard.
