Oscar Wiesel
| Osсar Bernhard Franz Wiesel | |
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| Born |
20 August 1864 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | ? |
| Nationality | Russian-German |
| Spouse(s) | Marianna Pavlovna Kosagovskaya |
| Parent(s) | Oscar Sigismund Wiesel and Marie Christine Pointin |
| Awards | Order of Peter Frederick Louis |
Oscar Wiesel (20 August 1864 in Saint-Petersburg – ?) — Diplomat, Norway researcher, founder of Saami collection of Russian Museum of Ethnography (Saint-Petersburg), Acting State Councillor.
Oscar Wiesel descended from the German-Austrian Wiesel family.
Father – Oskar Borisovich Wiesel (Wiesel Oscar Sigismund), was born in Russia in 1826, graduated from Prince Bezborodko's Gymnasium of Higher Learning in Nizhyn (currently Nizhyn Gogol State University), worked in the Russian Ministry of Finance, repeatedly visited Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris on behalf of Their Majesties Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III, Acting State Councillor.
Mother – Marie Christine de Pointin was born in 1835. Her father Fransois de Pointin who had family roots from the French province of Picardy was born at Louis XVIII's court in exile in Warsaw. He was notable for building the silver iconostasis of the Kazan Cathedral (St. Petersburg) and was awarded the Order of St. Anna by graf Yuliy Pompeevich Litte (ital., Giulio Renato de Litta Visconti Arese).
Spouse - Marianna Pavlovna Kosagovskaya, daughter of Pavel Pavlovich Kosogovski, the governor of Vitebsk, Odessa, Kursk and Poltava.
Brother - Emil Anton Joseph Wiesel (1 March 1866, Saint Petersburg – 2 May 1943, Leningrad) – a painter, museum curator and a board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russia (since 1914), organizer of international art exhibitions, councilor of Hermitage and Russian Museum and Legion of Honour holder. During soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka (central administrative board of science, science-artistic and museum institutions) museum department.
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