Adolf Passer

Adolf Passer
Adolf Passer, c.1906[1]
Born	c. 1864 Prague, Austria
Died	14 August 1938 (aged 73–74) Franzensbad, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Austrian
Known for	Philatelic collection The Stamps of Turkey (1938)

Adolf Passer FRPSL (c. 1864 – 14 August 1938) was an Austrian philatelist and authority on the stamps of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

A stamp collector from a young age, Passer was able to exploit his professional connections in the shipping industry to expand his collection when he worked in London in the late 1880s. He continued to develop his collection on his return to Austria, joining philatelic societies and winning gold medals for his collection at international exhibitions. He was the organiser of the Vienna Philatelic Exhibition of 1911, for which he was awarded a medal by Emperor Franz Joseph I.

He wrote a book on the stamps of Bosnia and Herzegovina and another on those of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, published by the Royal Philatelic Society, London, in 1938 and regarded at the time as almost the last word on the subject.