Michał Tyszkiewicz

'Mykolas Tiškevičius (Michał Tyszkiewicz - in Polish)' (1828–1897) was a Lithuanian collector of antiques and amateur Egyptologist, member of the once very powerful Lithuanian noble family of Tyškevičiai.

He excavated at Luxor in 1861-1862 and revisited Egypt in 1867-1868, building up a collection during his travels. It is now split between different cities in Lithuanian, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Boston, Rome, and the Tyszkiewicz Palace at Lahojsk, Belarus. A small part of it remains in Poland in the National Museum in Warsaw.

Also

Another person bearing this name was Lithuanian envoy to the Crimean Tatars in 1537–39 and a possible author of "De moribus tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum".

Writings

• Diary of a Journey to Egypt and Nubia, Paris 1863.
• Memories of an old collector, translated into English by Mrs. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, London 1898.