{{Short description|Croatian Jewish industrialist (1858–1934)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Salamon Berger Ouz | image = Salamon Berger.jpg | image_size = 175px | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1858|02|25}} | birth_place = Mnešice, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Austrian Empire, (now Slovakia) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1934|01|11|1858|02|25}} | death_place = Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) | relatives = | spouse = | children = }}
'''Salamon Berger Ouz''' (25 February 1858 – 11 January 1934) was a Croatian Jewish industrialist, textile trader, and founder and first director of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb.<ref name = "židovski zagreb">{{harvtxt|Snješka Knežević|2011|p=47}}</ref><ref name=zmg>{{in lang|hr}} Biba Salata; 150. obljetnica rođenja Salamona Bergera; Zagreb, moj grad; Ožujak 2008.; broj 11; str. 14.</ref>
Berger Ouz was born on 25 February 1858 in Mnešice, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in present-day Slovakia. When he lost his parents at 16 years of age, Berger moved to Zagreb.<ref name=zmg/><ref>{{Cite news|title=Predstavnici Matice Slovačke položili vijenac na grob osnivača etnografskog muzeja|publisher=index.hr|date=2004-01-11|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/predstavnici-matice-slovacke-polozili-vijenac-na-grob-osnivaca-etnografskog-muzeja/180124.aspx|access-date=2012-11-01|language=hr}}</ref> As a textile merchant and manufacturer, Berger presented the products of Croatian industry on 96 exhibitions across the Europe, United States and Australia. Over the course of his business travels around Croatia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he amassed a collection of ethnographic artefacts. The biggest portion of textile artefacts in his collection – such as weavings and lace items – Berger had collected in the Posavina region. In 1919, Berger founded the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, featuring over 8,000 textile items from his collections, titled "The Land Collection of Salamon Berger". He also served as museum's first director until 1925, when he retired and was named honorary director.<ref name=zmg/><ref>{{in lang|hr}} Katarina Bušić; Salamon Berger i počeci izložbene djelatnosti zagrebačkog Etnografskog muzeja; Etnografski muzej Zagreb; 26. veljače 2009.; str. 281 – 300.</ref> Berger died in Zagreb in 1934 and was buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.<ref name=mirogoj>{{in lang|hr}} Gradska groblja Zagreb: Salamon Berger, Mirogoj Ž-924-ARKP-16/1</ref>
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