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Ludwig Pollak

Jewish Czech-Austrian classical archaeologist and art collector (1868-1943) murdered in the Holocaust · Austria · On the map · Academics · Died at 75

Ludwig Pollak was a Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer and director of the Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco. Pollak is best known for the 1906 discovery of the missing right arm of Laocoön from the statue of Laocoön and His Sons. Pollak died at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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