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Harry Bober (Abraham Herschel Bober) was born on 2 September, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, US, is an American art historian. Discover Harry Bober's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Abraham Herschel Bober
Occupation art historian, university professor, author
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September, 1915
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, US
Date of death 17 June, 1988
Died Place New York City, New York, US
Nationality United States

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His wife is Phyllis Pray Bober (1943–1973, divorce)

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1915

Harry Bober (1915–1988) was an American art historian, a university professor, and a writer.

He was the first Avalon Professor of the Humanities a New York University (NYU).

He wrote and edited several books and published numerous articles on the art, architecture and historiography of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance period.

Abraham Herschel Bober was born on September 2, 1915, in Brooklyn, New York.

The name Harry had been a typo on his birth certificate, which he later adopted has his name.

His parents were Fanny Newman and Hyman Bober, they were Jewish and from Eastern Europe, immigrating to the United States before World War I.

For his high school education, he attended Boys High School.

Bober's started his study of art history at the City College of New York.

1936

In 1936, he was among the first group of students to enroll in the Fine Arts Graduate Center at New York University (NYU), this would later be known as the New York University, Institute of Fine Arts (NYU/IFA).

1939

In 1939, Bober wrote his M.A. degree thesis under Erwin Panofsky (on the subject of the Brussels Apocalypse).

1943

He married the future art historian Phyllis Pray in 1943, which he meet while attending class at New York University.

1949

He received his Ph.D. from NYU in 1949.

His dissertation was titled, The Illustrations in the Printed Books of Hours: Iconographic and Stylistic Problems (1949), on Medieval books of hours, his doctoral advisor was Walter William Spencer Cook.

1950

The 1950–1951 year was spent as a senior research fellow at the Warburg Institute.

1951

Bober taught at Harvard University from 1951 until 1954.

1954

Then in 1954 he returned to New York University as Avalon professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York University.

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 (NYU/IFA) from 1954 until his death in 1988.

He also taught at Queens College, Smith College, and Johns Hopkins University.

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 (IFAR).

1956

He was a founding member and first secretary (1956–1959) of the International Center for Medieval Art, for which he also helped launch Gesta, its scholarly organ.

During these years Bober published several facsimile editions of medieval manuscripts for Hans P. Kraus.

1973

The couple divorced in 1973, together they had two sons.

He joined the U.S. Navy during World War II.

After the war, Bober and his wife continued their graduate work.

1988

He died from complications from liver cancer at the age of 72, on June 17, 1988, at Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan, New York.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Harry Bober, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses over 110 works, in over 150 publications, in four languages, and over 1,300 library holdings.