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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SwK, post: 1998964, member: 22309&quot;]A mentor and friend 2014</p><p><br /></p><p>LEO MILDENBERG OF BANK LEU ZURICH</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://s25.postimg.org/ilrxfgp0f/Leo_Mildenberg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Leo Mildenberg, founded the numismatic auction arm of Switzerland&#039;s Bank Leu.</p><p><br /></p><p>The late Leo Mildenberg was a world-renowned numismatist, my mentor died in 2001</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr Mildenberg was born in Kassel in Germany in 1913. He studied ancient history and Semitic languages at the University of Frankfurt, until being forced out by the Nazis in 1933. His first stop was Leipzig, and from there he went to Estonia, where he received his doctorate. In the winter of 1941, he was sent with many others to a Russian prison camp in Kazakhstan, although he had done nothing wrong. It was there that he met&nbsp; his future wife, Elsie Brunner, from Zurich, in Switzerland. In 1947, the couple, with the help of the Red Cross, fled the camp for Switzerland.</p><p><br /></p><p>The venerable Bank Leu, in Zurich. He was a great numismatist as he was a collector, he had, within a few years, set up a specialist numismatic department within the bank, which later became the world&#039;s leading auction house for ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Geoffrey[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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