Nicolas M Salgo
American
Hungarian
Nicolas M Salgo was a Hungarian-American financier, diplomat and art collector. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webb and Knapp | 1950 | 1957 |
Nicolas M Salgo was a Hungarian-American financier, diplomat and art collector. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webb and Knapp | 1950 | 1957 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1914/00/00 | Nicolas M Salgo is born in Budapest, Hungary. | Born | |||||
| 1937/00/00 | Nicolas M Salgo earns his LLD and PhD in 1937 from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. | Education | Eotvos Lorand University Law Building, Pest | Budapest | |||
| 1950/00/00 | Mr Salgo begins working as executive vice president of Webb and Knapp, Inc, in New York City. He will stay with this position until 1957. | Work | |||||
| 1953/00/00 | Nicolas M Salgo becomes a United States citizen. | Life | |||||
| 1960/00/00 | Mr Salgo establishes Watergate Improvement Associates, Washington, DC. He will remian a limited partner until 1977 and serve as chairman of the Watergate Companies from 1977 until 1983. | Developer | Watergate | Washington, DC | |||
| 1983/10/07 | Nicolas M Salgo is appointed US Ambassador to Hungary by President Reagan. Salgo will work in Budapest in that capacity until the end of 1986. | Work | |||||
| 1984/00/00 | As American Ambassador to Hungary, Nicolas Salgo begins collecting Hungarian fine art and branches out into old Hungarian silver, old Hungarian maps, old Hungarian coins, and Hungarian folk art. | Owner | Fair in Transylvania (painting) | ||||
| 1987/00/00 | After he leaves his Ambassador post, Salgo receives permission from the Minister of Culture, Bela Kopeczito, to take the protected works with the understanding that they will foster a greater appreciation of Hungarian art abroad. | Owner | |||||
| 1987/00/00 | A gift from N Salgo, a statue by Imre Varga of Raol Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved 10,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, is installed in Budapest. The bronze statue installed between two slabs of rock can be found at 1024 Szilegyi Erzsebet Fasor | Benefactor | |||||
| 1987/06/15 | President Reagan announces his intention to accord Nicolas M Salgo the personal rank of Ambassador in his capacity as Chief of the United States Negotiating Team for Property Negotiations with the German Democratic Republic. | Work | |||||
| 1994/00/00 | Nicholas M Salgo receives the Raoul Wallenberg Award for donating the statue of Wallenberg in Budapest, Hungary. | Benefactor | |||||
| 2005/02/26 | Nicolas M Salgo, a Hungarian immigrant who prospered as a financier and a builder of the Watergate complex in Washington dies on a visit to Bal Harbour, Fla. He was 90 and lived in Key Largo, Fla, and on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. - NY Times | Died |
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