Otto Kurz Explained

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

• University of Vienna

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

• Who was Who

Notes and References

1. Web site: Oxford Slade Professors, 1870–present. University of Oxford. 2012. 27 January 2015. PDF. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150213123228/http://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/hoa/documents/pdf/Oxford_Slade_Professors.pdf. 13 February 2015.