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Aby Warburg

1866 - 1929

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Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London. At the heart of his research was the legacy of the classical world, and the transmission of classical representation, in the most varied areas of Western culture through to the Renaissance. Warburg described himself as: "Amburghese di cuore, ebreo di sangue, d'anima Fiorentino" ('Hamburger at heart, Jew by blood, Florentine in spirit'). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aby Warburg is the 53rd most popular historian (down from 48th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 543rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Historian.

Abraham Warburg is most famous for his work on the history of art. He was a German art historian and a member of the Warburg family.

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Among historians, Aby Warburg ranks 53 out of 561. Before him are Lucien Febvre, François Guizot, Yuval Noah Harari, Samuel von Pufendorf, Niketas Choniates, and Poggio Bracciolini. After him are Joseph Justus Scaliger, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Justin, Francesco Guicciardini, Euhemerus, and Ernst Gombrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Aby Warburg ranks 16. Before him are Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, Giovanni Agnelli, Beatrix Potter, Hans von Seeckt, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. After him are Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Lev Shestov, Nathan Söderblom, Antoine Meillet, Ferruccio Busoni, and Anne Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1929, Aby Warburg ranks 17. Before him are Prince Maximilian of Baden, Sergei Diaghilev, Emile Berliner, Émile Loubet, Thomas Burke, and Maria Christina of Austria. After him are Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Otto Liman von Sanders, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Thorstein Veblen, Antoine Bourdelle, and Mercédès Jellinek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 643 out of 7,253. Before him are Anneliese Michel (1952), Gabriele Münter (1877), Kurt Student (1890), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Hans von Bülow (1830), and Walther Rathenau (1867). After him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), John of Saxony (1801), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), and Christopher Clavius (1538).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 7. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Erwin Panofsky (1892), and Samuel von Pufendorf (1632). After him are Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Christoph Cellarius (1638), and Reinhart Koselleck (1923).

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