Alma Stephanie Wittlin, ''Alma S. Wittlin'', (March 23, 1899

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– December 31, 1992 Palo Alto) was an Austrian writer. Her surname also appears as Wittlin-Frischauer.

Life

Born in or near Lviv,

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, she was educated in Vienna, receiving a doctorate in art history from the University of Vienna in 1925, and came to England in 1937. She carried out educational research at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 1952, she came to the United States and was

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in 1959. In 1921, she married Paul Max Frischauer. While in Austria, she wrote a number of successful historical novels. Wittlin called for museums to take their role as educational institutions more seriously. She died in Palo Alto, California. An annual lecture given in her honour is sponsored by the International Council of Museums.

Selected works

* ''The Museum. Its history and its tasks in education'' (1949) * ''Museums. In search of a usable future'' (1970)

(Hgg.): Das Ende des Exils? Briefe von Frauen nach 1945. Reihe: Frauen und Exil, 7. edition text + kritik, Munich 2015: 170–185. * : Alma S. Wittlin (1899–1992). In bester Gesellschaft und, Self-made‘, In: Ursula Seeber, Veronika Zwerger und Claus-Dieter Krohn, Kometen des Geldes. Exil und Ökonomie, Exilforschung, 33, Munich 2015: 228–245. * : Wittlin Alma S., in Ilse Korotin (ed.) biografiA, Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 3, Böhlau, Wien 2016: 3573–3575. (Lexikoneintrag) * : ''Alma S. Wittlin: Beobachtungen zu Kriegs- und Friedensreflexionen.'' In: "Zwischenwelt", Periodical of the

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-Society Vienna, Autumn (October) 2016 (in German) *
Hadwig Kraeutler:
''Alma S. Wittlin. Preliminary remarks on the life and scholarship of an austrian émigré'', 2013 *
Hadwig Kräutler:
''The Museologist, Writer, Educationalist Alma S. Wittlin (1899 - 1990). A Preliminary Research Report.'' Smithsonian Institution, 2011

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wittlin, Alma Stephanie 1899 births 1992 deaths Austrian women historians 20th-century Austrian women writers Austrian historical novelists Austrian Jews 20th-century Austrian writers 20th-century Austrian historians Austrian emigrants to the United Kingdom

Life

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