Falbe, C. T. (Christian Tuxen), 1791-1849

found: nuc87-67397: Müller, L. Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique, 1977(hdg. on OU rept.: Falbe, Christian Tuxen, 1791-1849; usage: C.T. Falbe)

found: Recherches sur l'emplacement de Carthage, 1833:title page (C.T. Falbe, capitaine de vaisseau et Consul Général de Danemarck)

found: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon WWW site, viewed July 26, 2021(Christian Falbe (numismatiker); Christian Tuxen Falbe; naval officer, archaeologist, numismatist; born in Elsinore, 5.4.1791; died in Copenhagen, 19.7.1849; he spent 4 years at the naval cadet academy; in 1807 he became second lieutenant and served in the French Scheldt Squadron, 1808-1810; he then took part in the gunboat war at home; in 1815 he became first lieutenant and lieutenant commander in 1820; he left the service as captain in 1820 and was appointed Consul General of Tunis; he was transferred to Greece in 1833, returning home in 1835; in 1833 he published Recherches sur l'emplacement de Carthage; from the 1820s he helped augment the art collection of Prince Christian (VIII) and catalogued his coin collection; in 1842 he was appointed to the Royal coin cabinet at Rosenborg; in 1847 he became director of Christian VIII's collections at Amalienborg; together with J.C. Lindberg he announced in 1843 the publication of a work on Africa's ancient coins; only Cyrenaique was published before his death)

found: History of photography, vol. 14, issue 2 (1990):page 195 (Christian Tuxen Falbe; he served in the French Navy 1808-1810; he became a commander in the Royal Danish Navy but was dismissed in 1820 and appointed Consul General in Tunisia; he surveyed the ancient site of Carthage and published his results; during his service in Tunisia he corresponded for years with the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik; in 1833 he was appointed Consul General to Nauplia and Athens in Greece but was recalled in August 1835; he spent a short time in Copenhagen, where he rearranged the private collection of coins and antiquities that belonged to the Crown Prince; in 1837 he set out on a scientific expedition to Tunisia; in July 1838 he went to Paris, where he remained until spring 1840, working on his scientific papers and making a geographic map of Tunisia for the French Ministry of War; in September 1839 he became the first Danish photographer to take daguerrotypes depicting prospects of Paris; he returned to Copenhagen in April 1840 and immediately went into the service of Christian VIII, organizing the collections of antiquities, paintings and coins at Amalienborg and Rosenborg Castles)