Undated photograph of Duchess Marie at unidentified dig site. Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz (1856-1929) was a daughter of Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Gratz, and Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1881, she married her first cousin, the German-bo
Undated photograph of Duchess Marie at unidentified dig site. Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz (1856-1929) was a daughter of Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Gratz, and Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1881, she married her first cousin, the German-born Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg. In 1905 she took up the practice of archaeology. She spent a considerable part of her fortune conducting excavations on Iron Age cemeteries at Sticna, Magdalenska gora, and Vinica. She acquired the patronage of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I and German Kaiser Wilhelm II. She became an accomplished fieldworker and an important figure in the archaeology of Central Europe, amassing a collection of over 20,000 artifacts. She died in 1929 at the age of 72 or 73. The Mecklenburg Collection, which was acquired by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, is among one of the most important for understanding the development of Iron Age societies in the eastern Alps.
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