Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (January 30, 1902 – August 18, 1983) was a German-born British historian of art and, especially, architecture.

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January 30 - 1902 - August 18 - 1983 - Historian of art - Architecture

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The son of a Jewish merchant, Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony. He studied art history at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt/Main in Germany (PhD 1924), worked at the Dresden Gallery (1924?28) and taught at Göttingen University (1929?33). In 1934, he moved to England to escape Nazism and taught at London, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities. He assumed British citizenship in 1946.

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Jew - Leipzig - Saxony - Art history - Munich - Berlin - Frankfurt/Main - Dresden - Göttingen - England - Nazism - London - Oxford - Cambridge

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He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship.

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Pevsner conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953?), many individual volumes of which are regarded as classics.

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He died in London.

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