Metadata: Barb, Alfons (1901-1979)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Reference number:
- Alfons Barb
- Title:
- Barb, Alfons (1901-1979)
- Title (official language):
- Barb, Alfons (1901-1979)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Barb, Alfons A, 1901-1979, librarian and cultural scholar
- Date(s):
- 1914/1979
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 29 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Alfons Barb, c 1924-1979, including working papers, collection of casts of gemstones, correspondence and offprints. Topics covered include: Magic, Folklore and Amulets; Medieval Magic; Gnosis; Gemstones; Mystery, Myth and Magic; Greco-Roman Numismatics and Archaeology and 'History of Popular Belief and Superstition from Ancient Times to the Present Day'.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Alfons Barb was born in Vienna. He supported himself working as a goldsmith whilst studying at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate aged 25. He then worked as a museum director for several years until the Anschluss, when he was dismissed under the new racial laws. He moved to England with his young family in 1939 where, after time spent interned as an enemy alien and eight years working as a factory tool fitter, he eventually resumed an academic career. Barb joined the Warburg Institute in 1949 as Assistant Librarian and subsequently served as Librarian (1956-1966). He was an Honorary Fellow of the Institute from 1968 until his death in 1979. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, and received the Austrian Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1968.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Barb, Alfons
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110030724
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute
