sir nikolaus pevsner

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born Jan. 30, 1902, Leipzig, Ger. died Aug. 18, 1983, London, Eng. German-born British art historian. He studied at various German universities and taught at Göttingen University (1929-33) before moving to England to escape Nazism. There he taught at the Universities of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is best known for his writings on architecture, especially 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. He conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953- ); many of these individual volumes have become classics
sir nikolaus pevsner