Michał Tyszkiewicz

Mykolas Tiškevičius (Polish: Michał Tyszkiewicz) (1828–1897) was a Lithuanian collector of antiques and amateur Egyptologist, member of the once very powerful Lithuanian noble family of Tyškevičiai.

He excavated at Luxor in 1861-1862 and revisited Egypt in 1867-1868, building up a collection during his travels. It is now split between different cities in Lithuanian, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Boston, Rome, and the Tyszkiewicz Palace at Lahojsk, Belarus. A small part of it remains in Poland in the National Museum in Warsaw.^[1]

Writings

• Diary of a Journey to Egypt and Nubia, Paris 1863.
• Memories of an old collector, translated into English by Mrs. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, London 1898.

Other people with the same name

Another person bearing this name was Lithuanian envoy to the Crimean Tatars in 1537–39 and a possible author of "De moribus tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum".

References

1. Leszek Zinkow