For the German slalom canoeist, see Walter Horn (canoeist). For the German entomologist, see Walther Horn.
Walter William Horn
Horn's certificate of naturalization, bearing his picture.
Born
Walther Wilhelm Adolf Horn
18 January 1908
Waldangelloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died
26 December 1995(1995-12-26) (aged 87)
Berkeley, California, the United States of America
Citizenship
American
Occupation(s)
Art historian, medievalist
Walter William Horn (18 January 1908 - 26 December 1995) was a German-American medievalist scholar noted for his work on the timber vernacular architecture of the Middle Ages.
Horn was born in Germany, but fled Nazism and spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became the university system's first art historian and co-founded the History of Art department. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Horn served in the U.S. Army during World War II and then in the special intelligence unit that tracked down art works plundered by the Nazis. His most celebrated exploit was the recovery of the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Charlemagne's Imperial Regalia.[1] As a scholar, Horn is most noted for his work on the medieval architectural drawing known as the Plan of Saint Gall.
Additions: for recovery of Imperial Regalia, see Sidney Kirkpatrick, Hitler’s Holy Relics, Simon and Schuster, 2010. Horn was present as a guest of Austria at the reopening of the rooms dedicated to the Reglia at the Hofburg Museum in 1987.
^W. Eugene Kleinbauer, James Marrow and Ruth Mellinkoff, "Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America: Walter W. Horn," Speculum 71 (1996), p. 800 ("his most important piece of detective work led to the recovery of the coronation regalia of the Holy Roman Empire"); "Walter Horn," San Francisco Chronicle, 30 December 1995, obituary; University of California (System) Academic Senate, "1996, University of California: In Memoriam,"
"Walter Horn, History of Art: Berkeley" ("his most spectacular feat was the recovery of Charlemagne's ceremonial regalia").
Walter William Horn (18 January 1908 - 26 December 1995) was a German-American medievalist scholar noted for his work on the timber vernacular architecture...
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such issues as perception, aesthetic value, and the "poietic fallacy", WalterHorn offers a more extensive explanation of the serialism (and atonality)...
of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional...
maint: others (link) Price, Lorna (1982). The Plan of St. Gall in brief. WalterHorn. Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-04736-2. OCLC 8875721.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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