- Otto Kurz
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Otto Kurz FBA (26 May 1908, Vienna - 3 September 1975, Jerusalem) was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Oxford.
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Education
Career
Fleeing to London from the Nazis, he was Librarian at the Warburg Institute, 1944–1965 and Professor of the History of Classical Tradition with special reference to the Near East, University of London, 1965-1975.
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
Categories:- 1908 births
- 1975 deaths
- Art historians
- Jewish historians
- Austrian historians
- English historians
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Academics of the University of London
- Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford
- People associated with the Warburg Institute
- Austrian Jews
- Jewish refugees
- Austrian refugees
- Jews who emigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism
- English people of Austrian descent
- English Jews
- British expatriates in Israel
- People from Vienna
- British historian stubs
- Austrian academic biography stubs
- European historian stubs
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