Otto Kurz

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Name Otto Kurz

Died September 3, 1975, London, United Kingdom Books European Clocks and Watches in the Near East People also search for Ernst Kris, Hugo Buchtal, Leo Aryeh Mayer

Otto Kurz FBA (26 May 1908 in Vienna – 3 September 1975 in London) was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Oxford.

Education

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. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1971–72.

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.

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