Horn, Walter, 1908-1995

LC control no.	n 80090488
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Personal name heading	Horn, Walter, 1908-1995 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Horn, Walter William, 1908-1995 Horn, Walter William, 1908- Horn, Walther, 1908-1995 Horn, Walther Wilhelm Adolf, 1908-1995
Birth date	1908-01-18
Death date	1995-12-26
Place of birth	Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Place of death	Point Richmond (Calif.)
Affiliation	University of California, Berkeley United States. Army.
Profession or occupation	College teachers Art historians Medievalists
Found in	Die Fassade von St. Gilles : eine Untersuchung zur Frage des Antikeneinflusses in der südfranzösischen Kunst des 12. Jahrhunderts. 1937: title page (von Dr. Walther Horn) The Plan of St Gall, in brief : an overview based on the 3-volume work by Walter Horn and Ernest Born, 1982: title page (by Lorna Price) N.Y. times, 12/29/1995 (Walter Horn, 87, historian of medieval cloisters and barns; b. Waldangeloch, Germany; grew up in Heidelberg; left Germany to study in Florence and immigrated to U.S. in 1938; taught at Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley until retirement in 1975; d. 12/26 in Point Richmond, Calif.) Das Florentiner Baptisterium, 1938: title page (Walter Horn) The barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at its granges of Great Coxwell & Beaulieu-St. Leonards, 1964: title page (Walter Horn and Ernest Born) The Forgotten hermitage of Skellig Michael, 1990: title page (Walter Horn, Jenny White Marshall, and Grellan D. Rourke with Paddy O'Leary and Lee Snodgrass) Wikipedia, May 22, 2020 (Walter Horn; Walter William Horn was a German-American medievalist scholar noted for his work on the timber vernacular architecture of the Middle Ages; Horn was born in Germany, but fled Nazism and spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became the university system's first art historian and co-founded the History of Art department; a naturalized citizen of the United States, Horn served in the U.S. Army during World War II and then in the special intelligence unit that tracked down art works plundered by the Nazis; his most celebrated exploit was the recovery of the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Charlemagne's Imperial Regalia; as a scholar, Horn is most noted for his work on the medieval architectural drawing known as the Plan of Saint Gall; Horn was born on January 18, 1908 in the town of Waldangelloch, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, as Walther Wilhelm Adolf Horn; he studied art history at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Berlin; he earned his doctorate in 1934 at the University of Hamburg; he continued his studies from 1934 to 1937 as a research associate at the German Institute for the History of Art in Florence, Italy; in 1938, Horn moved to the United State; he became a naturalized citizen in 1943, dropping the forename Adolf because of its associations with the war; he died at home of pneumonia on December 16, 1995, at Point Richmond, California)
Associated language	ger eng