| Code | DS/UK/2199 |
| Dates | 1901-1979 |
| Person Name | Barb; Alphons Augustinus (1901-1979); Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Barb |
| Forenames | Alphons Augustinus |
| Title | Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Academic, archaeologist, epigraphist, numismatist, museum director and librarian. |
| Relationships | Husband to Helene Ilona Flora Barb, née Geiger (1904 - 1962); father to Wolfgang Gerson Barb (1928-2001) and Maria Henrietta Randall, née Barb (1931-2012); student, then assistant toWilhelm Kubitschek |
| History | Trained as a jeweller and goldsmith (1922) and studied at the University of Vienna (1922-1925); became founding director of the Burgenland Landsmuseum in Eisenstadt (1926-1938); removed from the role in 1938 due to Anschluss; moved to England with family (1939); interned as enemy alien (1940); worked as a factory tool fitter in Leeds (1940-1948); became library assistant at the Warburg Institute (1949-1956); promoted to librarian (1956-1966); became Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute (1968-1979). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society; received the Austrian Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst (1968). |
| Source | ‘Alphons A. Barb. Biography [by Alois Ohrenberger] and Bibliography’, offprint from: Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland (Heft 35 Festschrift für Alphons A. Barb), Eisenstadt 1966, pp. 5-10.
EHG, JBT. 'Alphons A. Barb' [obituary], Sent to The Times, November 1979 [in Warburg Institute Archives, CVs and Biographies file] |
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