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| Places | Germany | |
| was | Printer Bookseller | |
| Work field | Business | |
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| Birth | 2 August 1861, Gößnitz, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Germany | |
| Death | 1926 (aged 64 years) | |
| Star sign | Leo |
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Arthur Ernst Glasewald (1861–1926) was a book seller and later stamp dealer in Gössnitz near Leipzig who was a pioneer in the study of German private posts. He founded the Internationale Verein für Localmarkenkunde and was editor and publisher of the journal Neueste Privatpost-Nachrichten. He was joint author and publisher of the Handbuch der deutschen Privatpostmarken.
Glasewald Medal
In 1928, a trust fund was established in memory of Glasewald to award a medal for meritorious research into the history of the German private posts.
Some of the past winners of the medal have been:
- Heinrich Düsterbehn (1950)
- Georg Glasewald (1951)
- Paul Rampacher (1955)
- L.N. & M. Williams (1961)
- Hans Meier zu Eissen (1982)
- Horst Müller (1994)
- Ralph Phillips (2016)
Selected publications
- Handbuch der deutschen Privatpostmarken. (Published and edited)
- Die Postwerthzeichen von Griechenland: Nach den neuesten Forschungen. 1896.