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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/74784| Title: | Some remarks on the Maltese Athanasius Kircher commemoration-stamp |
| Authors: | Mader, Rolf |
| Keywords: | Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680 -- On postage stamps Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680 -- Appreciation Commemorative postage stamps -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2003-08 |
| Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
| Citation: | Mader, R. (2003). Some remarks on the Maltese Athanasius Kircher commemoration-stamp. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society, 32(2), 22-24. |
| Abstract: | On the occasion of the 400 birthday of Athanasius Kircher S. J. (2nd of May 1602 - 27th of November 1680), well known throughout the scientific world as the famous German polyhistor, the Malta-Post-Office, realizing an idea of Cavaliere Rolf Mader, Ace. and Commendatore Dr. phil. Olaf Hein, M.A., Ace. (President of the International Athanasius Kircher Society R.S. Wiesbaden/Rome) issued a commemoration-stamp on 18th of October 2002. The stamp, drawn up by the Maltese designer Harry Borg and printed in miniature-sheets of ten items in offset at the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin with a face-value of 15 cents, shows the erudite's portrait in accordance of a rare and anonymous oil-painting, conserved at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitiit of Munich (original- size: height 195cm; breadth 183cm). [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/74784 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 2003 - 32(2) |
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