Raczynski, Athanasius, Graf

Date born:  1788

Place Born:  Posen (modern, Poznan, Poland)

Date died:  1874

Place died:  Berlin, Germany

early historian of Portuguese art; diplomat in Lisbon (1842-1845); commissioned by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Berlin to make a detailed survey of Portuguese

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Bazin 447;  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 312-14.

Bibliography:  Les Arts au Portugal. Paris, 1846;  Dictionnaire historico-artisticque du Portugal. Paris, 1847.