Heinrich Jacob Sivers (1709 - 1758) — Auction price
Lot 117 Curiosa Niendorpiensia
Heinrich Jacob Sivers (1709 - 1758) 
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana 
Heinrich Jacob Sivers
08.04.1709 - 08.08.1758
Heinrich Jacob Sivers was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and scholar, poet and writer, naturalist and collector.
Sifers studied law and theology at the University of Kiel, and received his doctorate at the University of Rostock, where he lectured and wrote various works. He wrote many poems, sermons and ceremonial speeches in German, Swedish and Latin.
Heinrich Sivers also studied geology, traveled extensively in Scandinavia, and compiled his own mineral collection. In 1737 he sold many of his minerals, as well as a cabinet of Roman coins to Count Carl Gillenborg, today they can be seen at Lund University.
CHRISTIE'S
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Date: 19.10.2023 10:00 UTC -05:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 357