Salamon Berger

February 25, 1858 (age 75)

Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Nové Mesto nad Váhom District, Slovakia

As a textile merchant and manufacturer, Berger presented the products of Croatian industry on 96 exhibitions across the Europe, United States and Australia. Over the course of his business travels around Croatia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he amassed a collection of ethnographic artefacts. The biggest portion of textile artefacts in his collection - such as weavings and lace items - Berger had collcted in the Posavina region. In 1919, Berger founded the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, featuring over 8,000 textile items from his collections, titled "The Land Collection of Salamon Berger". He also served as museum"s first director until 1925, when he retired and was named honorary director Berger died in Zagreb in 1934 and was buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.

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Berger was born on 25 February 1858 in Mnešice, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in present-day Slovakia.

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As a textile merchant and manufacturer, Berger presented the products of Croatian industry on 96 exhibitions across the Europe, United States and Australia. Over the course of his business travels around Croatia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he amassed a collection of ethnographic artefacts. The biggest portion of textile artefacts in his collection - such as weavings and lace items - Berger had collcted in the Posavina region.

In 1919, Berger founded the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, featuring over 8,000 textile items from his collections, titled "The Land Collection of Salamon Berger".

He also served as museum"s first director until 1925, when he retired and was named honorary director Berger died in Zagreb in 1934 and was buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.

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