page_title: Julius Friedländer (numismatist)
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Julius Friedländer (numismatist) / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Vorderseite zeigt eine Büste Friedlaenders in Dreiviertelansicht. Die umlaufende Legende nennt Name, seine Position als Direktor des Münzkabinetts und seine Lebensdaten. Der Medailleur Max Barduleck signierte unterhalb der Büste mit MB. Die Rückseite zeigt eine weibliche Person in antikisierender Tracht. Sie ist umringt von historischen und numismatischen Gegenständen. Die Legende nennt den Anlass der Prägung für die Vereinstage Deutscher Münzforscher. Beschlossen wurde sie in München, ausgegeben in Dresden. English: The front side depicts a bust of Friedlaender in three-quarter view surrounded by name, date of birth and death as well as his employment as head of numismatic department of the Berlin museum of ancient art. The engraver Max Barduleck signed below the bust "MB". The back side shows a reclined female in neoclassical stile. She is surrounded by historical and numismatic attributes. The dedication names occasion and year of strucking the medal in German. The occasion is named as the annual convention of German coin collectors, who decided to commission the medal in Munich 1886. Said medal was issued on the next meeting in Dresden 1891.
context_page_description: Eduard Julius Theodor Julius Friedländer was a German numismatist.
context_section_description: He was born on June 25, 1813 in Berlin. Friedländer's entire family embraced Protestant Christianity in 1820. After studying at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and traveling in Italy (1838–1839), he obtained a position at the Königliche Sammlung der Antiken-Münzen in Berlin in 1840. During his travels to Italy (1844–1847) with his friend Theodor Mommsen he acquired further numismatic material which he brought to Berlin. In 1868 he became director of the numismatic section of the Berlin Museum. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
  From his literary remains Rudolf Weil published Repertorium zur Antiken Numismatik, a supplement to Théodore Edme Mionnet's Description des Médailles Antiques, Berlin, 1885.
  In 1891, in occasion of the 5th convention of German numismatists in Dresden a medal was issued in his honour.
caption: Medal Julius Friedlaender 1891
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