| Code | DS/UK/2299 |
| Dates | 1913-1989 |
| Person Name | Ettlinger; Leopold David (1913-1989); Prof. dr. phil. |
| Surname | Ettlinger |
| Forenames | Leopold David |
| Title | Prof. dr. phil. |
| Activity | Warburg Institute historian of the Italian renaissance and Berkeley Art Department Chair, 1970-80. |
| Relationships | Son of Dr. Emil Ettlinger (1872-1943), university librarian, and Dora Beer (1886-1948); husband (m. 1939) to Amrei Jacoby, who died in 1955; husband (m. 1959) to Madeleine Noirot; no children. |
| History | attended private school in Greifswald; attended Stadtgymnasium in Halle (1923-1932); studied Archaeology and Art History at University of Halle (1932-1937); worked as assistant to Herbert Koch (1935-1937); received doctorate with thesis on Gottfried Semper (1937); emigrated to England (1938); worked for Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (1939); became Hostel Warden (1940-1941); interned in Isle of Man and released as a Hostel Warden (1940); Assistant Master at King Edward's School, Birmingham (1941-1948); worked at Warburg Institute as Curator of Photographic Division (1948-1956); worked at Warburg as Lecturer (1956-1964); became Durning Lawrence Professor for Art History at Slade School of UCL (1959-1970), then Chair of Department (1966-1970); Visiting Professor at Yale (1963-1964); the Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (1969-1970 [?]); moved permanently to USA (1970); became Professor at UC Berkeley (1970), then Chair of Department (1971-1975); Guest Professor in Bonn (1975-1976), became emeritus (1980). |
| Source | Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999
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Mayer, Christine: Essig, Olga Margaretha. In: Altpreußische Biographie. [IIrsg. im Auftrag von der Historischen Kommission für ost- und westpreußische Landesgeschichte] Bd. V, 2, hg. von Klaus Bürger.Osnabrück: fibre Verlag, 2007, pp. 1779-1780. |
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