Peter H. Feist
Peter Heinz Feist (most often Peter H. Feist) (29 July 1928 – 26 July 2015) was a German art historian. Life Feist was born in 1928 in Warnsdorf in northern Bohemia, where he grew up. His father Georg H. Feist was a surgeon and in 1926 he moved with his wife from Prague to Warnsdorf, where he took over the management of the municipal hospital. Peter's mother, Isolde Feist née Sojka, was a nurse who as a so-called half-Jewish woman converted to Lutheranism before her marriage in 1923; her father was a wealthy wine and spirits merchant from Reichenberg. In 1932 Peter's parents divorced. His mother was later murdered together with her second husband and half-brother in 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In Warnsdorf Feist attended elementary school and Gymnasium (Germany), Gymnasium from 1934 to 1944. His Latin teacher was Rita Schober, Rita Hetzer, the later Romance scholar and literary scholar Rita Schober, who was also the reviewer of his habilitation in 1966 and w ...
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