Max Herz Pasha and His Activities on the Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe

The present paper deals with certain aspects of the activity of a close friend of Ignaz Goldziher, Max Herz Pasha, with whom he shared a common scholarly interest and a warm friendship. An important source for the study of Herz Pasha’s life and activities are his letters addressed to Goldziher, approximately 65, which are kept in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest1. To our great regret, the counterparts of these letters, Goldziher’s answers to Herz, have not survived.