Otto Kurz
Otto Kurz FBA was a historian and Slade [Professor of Fine Art], University of Oxford.
Education
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.