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Anton Heinrich Springer

Anton Heinrich Springer wrote the five-volume 'Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte'. During the period in hiding, Anne Frank received this series for her fifteenth birthday.

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  • Anton Heinrich Springer

Anton Heinrich Springer (1825-1891) was a German art historian.[1] Hij wrote the five-volume Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte (Handbook on Art History). Anne wrote in her diary on 13 June 1944 that she received the five Springer books for her fifteenth birthday.[2] While in hiding, Anne became more and more interested in history, Greek and Roman mythology, and art history in particular.[3] Anne dreamed of studying art history after the war.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Anton Heinrich Springer.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 13 June 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. Aso see: Diary Version A, 6 January 1944.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 6 April 1944 & 16 May 1944, in: The Collected Works.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 May 1944, in: The Collected Works.

 

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