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.
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
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