Introduction to the Pirquet Archive

The Archive contains documents, pictures, maps and family trees collected by some of our ancestors beginning in the 18^th century in Belgium and Austria.

For an introduction-video to the Archive click here (video to be created)

The most prominent characters are shown here

• Pierre Martin Pirquet v. Cesenatico
• Peter Zeno Pirquet and his wife Flora Pereira-Arnstein, a great-granddaughter of Fanny Arnstein, whose father was Daniel Itzig.
• Peter Zeno's sons Theodor and Silverio Pirquet carried on taking care of the family collection.

The family collection was inherited by Theodor Pirquet 1912 who continued working on the family history, later Silverio took on this task.

Photograph of the inside lid of "Trunk No. 1"

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Flora had wished that the collection not be dispursed, thus Hubert Pirquet inherited it, sent it to Zürich for safekeeping, whence, after his death, it was sent to his brother Silvio in Boston. After Silvio's death it was sent to John Pirquet in Victoria B.C. in Canada. Thereafter it was sent in 2019 to Peter (Pasi) Pirquet in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The idea of re-establishing the Pirquet-Archive in Austria was first discussed in 2005 and became a reality when Pasi sent to Vienna. Lizzy, Claus and Peter than negotiated the tenantcy of the room where it is now kept, with Toni Pinschof as curator.

The Pirquet-Archive contains:

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  36 items listed in Silverio's 1949 testament
  
  
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  including 32 pictures / portraits and 4 collections of documents, of which No. 28 is Trunk No. 1
  
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  Trunk No. 1 contained 17 items listed as shown in the photographs
   
  
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  and these numbers are used to identify the scanned documents, enabling the visitor to find the originals in the Archive or on the website
  
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  Trunk No. 2 contained additional documents collected by Theodor and Silverio:
  
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  Photograph of the inside lid of "Trunk No. 2"
  
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