Ernst Kitzinger was a German-born historian of late classical, early medieval and Byzantine art. Of a Jewish family, Kitzinger left Germany in 1934 shortly after defending his doctoral thesis and moved to England where he joined the staff of the British Museum. In 1941, Kitzinger emigrated to the United States and became a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. There he became Director of Byzantine Studies from 1955 to 1966. In 1967, Kitzinger joined the faculty at Harvard, where he taught until his retirement in 1979. After retirement, he divided his time between Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty

Includes bibliographical references and index

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)

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