Otto Kurz
Appearance
Otto Kurz FBA (26 May 1908 in Vienna, Austria – 3 September 1975 in London) was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Oxford.
Education
Career
Fleeing to London from the Nazis, he was Librarian at the Warburg Institute, 1944–65 and Professor of the History of Classical Tradition with special reference to the Near East, University of London, 1965–75. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1971–72.[1]
Honours
- He was Visiting Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1964, and 1973
- He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 1962.
- Honorary Fellow: Associazione Francesco Francia, Bologna; Raccolta Vinciana, Milan; Accademia Clementina, Bologna.
References
- ^ "Oxford Slade Professors, 1870–present" (PDF). University of Oxford. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
Categories:
- 1908 births
- 1975 deaths
- Austrian art historians
- Jewish historians
- 20th-century Austrian historians
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Academics of the University of London
- Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford)
- People associated with the Warburg Institute
- Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom
- British expatriates in Israel
- Writers from Vienna
- 20th-century British historians
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- Austrian academic biography stubs
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