| Code | DS/UK/1490 |
| Dates | 07/06/1892-03/07/1964 |
| Person Name | Bing; Gertrud (07/06/1892-03/07/1964); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Bing |
| Forenames | Gertrud |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Librarian at Kulturwissenschafliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW, Hamburg) (1922-1924); personal research assistant of Warburg (1924); Deputy Director of KBW (1927-1933). Assistant Director under Saxl and Henri Frankfort (1944-1955); succeeded Frankfort as Director (1955), Professor of History of the Classical Tradition at University of London (1955-1959). |
| Relationships | Daughter of Moritz Bing and Emma Bing, née Jonas. |
| History | Studied Philosophy, German Studies, Psychology in Munich and Hamburg; doctoral dissertation (1921); emigrated to England (1933). |
| Source | "In Memoriam Gertrud Bing, 1892-1964." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 27 (1964): [1-2]; Bober, Phyllis Pray. A Life of Learning. Charles Homer Haskins Lecture. New York 1995, p. 12; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 56-9; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd. Stuttgart 2007, pp. 27-28. |
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