Word: giedion
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Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverned Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's, London; Sigfried Giedion. Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture...
...Very Reverend Dr. Matthews will be William Belden Noble Lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School. Professor Linderstrom-Lang will be Edward K. Dunham Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Giedion will be Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, delivering a series of public lectures at Harvard next spring...
...Sigfried Giedion, Swiss historian of art and one of the leading European figures in the promotion of modern architecture and art, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year, it was announced today...
...native of Switzerland and 44 years old, Giedion studied the history of art, archaeology and literature in universities in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Following these studies, at Bauhaus Weimar, he came in contact with Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture. In 1925 he returned to Switzerland and took an important part in the fight to introduce modern architecture in that country...