Kosta Hörmann · Islam Museum

Depth

At a glance

Roles: Official · folklorist · editor
Region: Anatolia
Identifiers: Wikidata

Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abadi Bano Begum · Abdelwahab Annaib · Abdullah al-Zawawi · Abdullah Bash Aayan · Adib Peshawari

In space

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Place in the story

Unknown (unknown)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Summary

Konstantin (Kosta) Hörmann (8 September 1850 – 16 November 1921) was an Austro-Hungarian official of Bavarian descent who became the founding director of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.¹² Born at Bjelovar and trained in Vienna for the Military Frontier administration, he entered Bosnia with the occupation forces of 1878 as a civilian commissioner and rose to head the provincial government's political-administrative department.¹

As museum director from 1888 he built up the collections, founded and edited the museum journal Glasnik and in 1895 launched the literary magazine Nada.² His most cited work is the two-volume Narodne pjesne Muhamedovaca u Bosni i Hercegovini (1888–89), one of the earliest major collections of Bosnian Muslim oral poetry.¹³