Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicholas Vakar will conduct a course in "Understanding Soviet Russia" with Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History, as guest speaker. Erwin Raisz of the Geographical Institute will lecture on "World Geographical Exploration. Other courses will include different aspects of music, dancing, and public speaking...
...down the peninsula they heeded the Allied calls to sabotage Nazi movements. Along the coast they turned on lights at night to beckon British and U.S. landing parties. But by week's end the occupying Germans seemed to hold a firm upper hand over wide areas. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel proclaimed himself master of all Italy above the Spezia-Rimini line, imposed a "state of war," decreed death for "giving aid or assistance" to the Allies...
...highest estimates, the Germans had consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...
...world's most distinguished art historians last fortnight published the year's soundest, handsomest, most massive (eight and a half pounds) art book. The historian is 51-year-old German-born Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. The book is Albrecht Dürer (Princeton University Press; $20), a two-volume analytical study of Germany's great post-medieval engraver, painter, art theorist. It is the most useful and enlightening Dürer monograph yet to appear...
Personable, witty Erwin Panofsky came to the U.S. from Germany in 1934. At the University of Hamburg he taught art history, made an international reputation as top-rank specialist in several branches of his subject (notably medieval German sculpture, Dürer, Michelangelo, the Italian Baroque). From visiting professorships at New York University and Princeton, he went to the recently established (1933) Institute for Advanced Study...