Anna Zádor Explained

Anna Zádor
Birth Date:24 September 1904
Birth Place:Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Budapest, Hungary
Nationality:Hungarian

Anna Zádor or Anna Zador (24 September 1904 – 3 March 1995) was a leading Hungarian historian.

Life

Zádor was born in Budapest in 1904 to a Jewish family. She took a degree in Art History at Pázmány Péter University. She volunteered to work for Professor Antal Hekler at the Eötvös Loránd University for a decade.

She survived the second world war but both her brother and her husband died in concentration camps. After the war she led the Franklin Society.[1] She began teaching Art History in 1951 and she gained her doctorate in 1961. She became widely known for the books that she published. These dealt with the Italian renaissance, Hungarian culture and history and the English Garden in Hungary

Zádor died in Budapest in 1995.[1] There is a plaque in her memory on Rózsahegy Street No 1/b in Budapest. Zador's memoirs are a useful source for the Holocaust in Hungary as she survived and she knew many who did not.[2]

Works

Notes and References

  1. https://nokert.hu/szo-20170318-2325/1739/8/baranyai-julia-tanar-muvelodestortenesz-1906-1982 Anna Zádor
  2. http://muzeumcafe.reblog.hu/aldozatok-es-tulelok-muveszettorteneszek-a-veszkorszakban VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS: ART HISTORIANS IN THE ERA OF ANNIHILATION
  3. Book: Gyula Ernyey. Britain and Hungary: Contacts in Architecture and Design During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century : Essays and Studies. 2005. Hungarian University of Craft and Design. 32–36. 9789637164637.