Salamon Berger, founder of the ethnographic museum at Zagreb, art collector, writer and industrialist, died here at the age of seventy-six.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Salamon Berger spent many years in Croatia, where he became interested in Croatian peasant arts and industries. He devoted considerable effort to the collection of national costumes and specimens of native industry, later giving it to the people of Croatia, and offering them his house in Zagrb as museum. Berger also founded school of fine arts and, in 1905, a museum of trade. The Zagreb Museum houses an art collection which he presented.
Berger’s writings included a number of works on ethnogrphic subjects.
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