Alfredo Frohlich is an American

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and

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who has won numerous medals at

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s for his

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collections of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. He is an accredited philatelic judge and has been a fellow of the

Royal Philatelic Society London The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philately, philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History ...

since 2010. In 2021 he received the

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of the

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. His interest in psychiatry led him to join the external advisory board of the University of Miami Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for which he has run fund-raising events. He has also raised funds with his wife for a school for the autistic.

Early life and family

Alfredo Frohlich was born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...

, Colombia. He is married to Andrea and together they live in an Aventura, Florida, condominium whose design was profiled in ''Luxe Interiors + Design'' magazine in 2019.

Career and fund-raising

Frohlich moved to Miami in the late 1990s where he worked as a financial adviser and venture capitalist. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He has a long-standing interest in psychiatry and is a member of the external advisory board of the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where he has raised funds and taken a particular interest in depression, anxiety, and suicide prevention. He is also interested in autism and with his wife has raised funds for The Victory Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, and for Jewish causes.

Collecting

Frohlich's philatelic collections have focussed on Central and South America. He has assembled award-winning collections of Colombia (confederation and federal governments), Chile, and the SCADTA issues of Ecuador. His collection of Colombia won the Champion of Champions award in 2007. Auctioneer Charles F. Shreve has described Frohlich's greatest philatelic achievement as his collection of the evolution of the postal systems in Panama from 1777 to 1881 which won three large gold medals at

Fédération Internationale de Philatélie The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) is the world federation for philately (the study of postage stamps and postal history). Based in Zürich, Switzerland, the FIP was founded on 18 June 1926. Aims The FIP was founded in 1926 w ...

endorsed philatelic exhibitions: Korea 2014, New York 2016, and Taipei 2016. The collection included an 1839 letter to General

Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera Tomás Cipriano Ignacio Maria de Mosquera y Figueroa Arboleda Salazar, Prieto de Tovar, Vergara, Silva, Hurtado de Mendoza, Urrutia y Guzmán (September 26, 1798 – October 7, 1878) was a Colombian general, political figure, and slaveholder ...

, the future president of Colombia, that is also the earliest surviving

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from Panama. The collection was sold at auction by Siegel International in 2018."Alfredo Frohlich - The Consummate Philatelic Exhibitor" by Charles F. Shreve in ''The Alfredo Frohlich Collection: The evolution of postal systems in Panama 1777 to 1881''. Siegel International, 2018. Frohlich has also formed a collection of the postal history of Delaware from 1773 to 1847 which was shown before the

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in 2021. He has been an accredited philatelic judge since 2008 and a fellow of the

since 2010. He is a former member of the

National Postal Museum The National Postal Museum, located in Washington, D.C., is the primary postal museum of the United States. It covers large portions of the postal history of the United States and other countries. It was established through joint agreement be ...

's Council of Philatelists. In 2021 he received the

of the

Selected publications

* ''The Lansa Story''. Colombian Philatelic Research Society, 2005. (With Dieter Bortfeldt) ISBN 958-33-9206-5 * ''Private Mail Carriers of Colombia''. Colombian Philatelic Research Society, 2006. (With Dieter Bortfeldt and Carlos Valenzuela) ISBN 958-33-9208-1 * ''150 Years of Colombian Philately''. Alfredo Frohlich, 2009.

References

External links

Alfredo Frohlich, Early Delaware PostageRobert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale - 1193
*https://siegelauctions.com/exhibits/Panama1777-1881.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Frohlich, Alfredo Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American philatelists Philately of Panama Colombian emigrants to the United States Naturalized citizens of the United States People from Bogotá Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London Philately of Colombia American venture capitalists Charity fundraisers (people) 21st-century American Jews