Conrad Leemans
| Dr Conrad Leemans | |||||||
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| Born | 1809 | ||||||
| Residence | Leiden | ||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||
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proposed as corresponding member 1868.03.17
Director of the Royal Museum of Leyden
Ond-Directeur van het Rijksmuseum van Ondheden, Leiden
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The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands. It is located in Leiden.
After his death Reuvens work was taken over by his student Conrad Leemans who had excavated with Reuvens and was present at his death. As described below, under Leemans the museum would finally get its own building. Prospects for continuing the growth of the collection looked bleak however, after royal interest waned and with the enormous cost of the d'Anasty deal still in mind. Leemans found a solution by using the official gazette to appeal private collectors, Dutch ambassadors and consuls for donations and aid in building the collection. The appeal was successful and objects from all over the world kept flowing in.
In 1839 Leemans, now appointed director, bought some 100 vases with funds from the king. They belonged to a collection that had been excavated a decade before in Italy. Leemans published this collection in 1840, and had published the Egyptian collection the year before. The Etruscan collection was published by a colleague. Publications would continue and the next period in the history of the museum is described as "a period of consolidation after the restless pioneer years...
Reuvens' student Conrad Leemans was appointed temporary curator of the collection and was asked to compile reports on the state of the museum and Reuvens' intended publications. Leemans followed Reuvens in complaining about the poor state of the antiquities due to limited finances and a poor housing. In November 1835 a turning event occurred for the museum when the university bought an 18th-century mansion and offered to place the collection there. Leemans set to work in redecorating the mansion and moving the collection to the new building. Budgetary problems and the difficulties of transporting some of the largest pieces through the city were eventually overcome, and in August 1838 the National Museum of Antiquities finally had its official opening for the public. Reuvens' collection had grown to a real museum
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External Publications
a very learned work, entitled Bdrd-Boiidotir^ on the neighbouring Island of Java, by Dr. C. Seemans, Director of the Museum of Antiquities, Leyden
Beredeneerde Beschrijving Der Asiatische En Amerikaansche Monumenten Van Het Museum Van Oudheden Te Leyden (Dutch... by Conrad Leemans
Boro-Boudour Dans L'Ile De Java (1874) (Dutch Edition) by Conrad Leemans and Frans Carel Wilsen
De Zangles: Eene Grieksche Beschilderde Drinkschaal Van Het Nederlandsche Museum Van Oudheden... (Dutch Edition... by Conrad Leemans
