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MILLINGEN, Professor Alexander Van (1840-1915)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Millingen

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: MILLINGEN, Professor Alexander Van (1840-1915)

Date(s): c1870s-c1900s

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator(s): Millingen | Alexander | Van | 1840-1915 | Professor of History

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1840; third son of Julius Michael Millingen (1800-1878, an associate of George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron, in 1823-1824 during the War of Greek Independence); educated at Malta Protestant College, Blair Lodge Academy, Polmont, Edinburgh University and New College, Edinburgh; MA (Edinburgh); Doctor of Divinity (St Andrews and Knox College, Toronto); Honorary Student, British School at Athens; Professor of History, Robert College Constantinople; Pastor of the Free Church of Scotland Church, Genoa; Pastor of the Union Church, Pera, Constantinople; recreations: archæology and travelling; died 1915. No connection of Van Millingen with King's College is known. Publications: Byzantine Constantinople: the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites (John Murray, London, 1899); Constantinople. Painted by Warwick Goble. Described by A. Van Millingen (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1906); with Ramsay Traquair, W S George and A E Henderson, Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: their history and architecture (Macmillan & Co, London, 1912); Walter S George, The Church of Saint Eirene at Constantinople, with an historical notice by Alexander Van Millingen (Oxford University Press, London, [1913]). Also contributed to Murray's Handbook to Constantinople and to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Alexander Van Millingen on history, architecture and archaeology, c1870s-c1900s (mostly undated), relating mainly to Constantinople and Byzantium but also to Biblical history, Greek and Roman history, history of philosophy and religion, early church history, and history of art, and including manuscript notes (some in notebooks), manuscript and typescript drafts, news cuttings, sketches, transcriptions and rubbings of inscriptions, and a few items of personal material, notably financial accounts and address books; photographs (some labelled as unpublished), plate proofs and sketches of buildings and monuments, and reproductions of inscriptions, including the walls of Constantinople and churches including Saint Eirene, Theodore, Theodosia, Sergios and Bacchos, Peter and Mark, Andrew in Krisis, Ioannes in Troullos, Christos in Chora, and Pantokrator (some items are endorsed with notes); photograph album of people and places in France, Germany, Italy, Austria, England, Montenegro, India, Tunis and Malta, 1889-1895 (where dated); plans of buildings, comprising the Egyptian obelisk in the Hippodrome, Constantinople, and the churches Saint Mary Mouchliotissa, Thekla, Mary Panachrantos, Peter and Mark, Mary Diaconissa, Theodosia, Saviour Pantepoptes, Theodore Thetiro, Mary Pammakaristos, John the Baptist of the Studion, the Church of the Myrelaion, the Monastir Mesjedi, the Refectory of the Monastery of Manuel, the Bogdan Serai, the Sanjakdar Mesjedi, and the Balaban Aga Mesjedi.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English; some Greek, French and Latin.

System of arrangement:

By box: notes and drafts; photographs (most sorted into envelopes); plans.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Found in King's College Old Library and transferred to King's College Archives.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Who's Who; British Library OPAC; Dictionary of National Biography for Julius Michael Millingen (1800-1878).

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Art history | Art theory | Arts
Byzantine history | National history
Drawings | Visual materials
Greek history | European history | National history
Photographs | Visual materials
Plans | Visual materials
Press cuttings | Newspaper press | Press
Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Roman history | European history | National history
Illustrations
Religious history
Travel

Personal names
Millingen | Alexander | Van | 1840-1915 | historian x Van Millingen | Alexander

Corporate names

Places
Austria | Western Europe | Europe
France | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
India | South Asia
Istanbul | Marmara | Turkey | Middle East
Italy | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Malta | Western Europe | Europe
Montenegro | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe
Tunis | Tunisia | North Africa