Harry Bober was an American

United States

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 art historian, a university professor, and a writer. He was the first Avalon Professor of the Humanities a New York University

New York University

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 (NYU).

Education and early life

Bober's began his study of art history at the City University of New York

City University of New York

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. In 1936, he was among the first group of students to enroll in the Fine Arts Graduate Center at NYU. This would later Institute of Fine Arts. He earned an MA in 1940, and his Ph.D. in 1949. The 1950-51 year was spent as a Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute

Warburg Institute

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Career

Bober taught at Harvard University 1951-54. In 1954 he returned to New York, joining the NYU faculty.

Bober was professor of medieval art at the NYU's Institute of Fine Arts ( IFA/NYU) from 1954 until his death in 1988.

He also taught at Queens College, Smith College

Smith College

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, and Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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Complementing his career as an academic, he served as one of the founding members of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Art Research

International Foundation for Art Research

International Foundation for Art Research is a non-profit organization which was established to channel and coordinate scholarly and technical information about works of art. IFAR provides an administrative and legal framework within which experts can express their objective opinions...

  (IFAR).

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Harry Bober, OCLC

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/WorldCat

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encompasses roughly 110+ works in 150+ publications in 4 languages and 1,300+ library holdings .

• Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages: English Libraries (1953)
• Medieval Objects in the Guennal Collection (1975)