Anna Zádor or Anna Zador (24 September 1904 – 3 March 1995) was a leading
Hungarian historian.
Life
Zádor was born in
Budapest in 1904 to a Jewish family. She took a degree in Art History at
Pázmány Péter University. She volunteered to work for Professor
Antal Hekler
Antal Hekler (1 February 1882 – 3 March 1940) was a Hungarian/German classical archaeologist and art historian. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Life
He wrote his doctoral thesis in political science in 1903 and then ...
at the
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
for a decade.
[
She survived the second world war but both her brother and her husband died in concentration camps. After the war she led the ''Franklin Society''.][Anna Zádor]
Nokert.hu, Retrieved 24 April 2017
She began teaching Art History in 1951 and she gained her doctorate in 1961. She became widely known for the books that she published. These dealt with the Italian renaissance, Hungarian culture and history and the English Garden in Hungary[ There is a plaque in her memory on Rózsahegy Street No 1/b in Budapest. Zador's memoirs are a useful source for the Holocaust in Hungary as she survived and she knew many who did not.][VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS: ART HISTORIANS IN THE ERA OF ANNIHILATION]
18 November 2014, MuseumCafe, Retrieved 24 April 2017
Works
* Italian architectural theories in the Renaissance and Baroque era;
* Architectural History of Hungary;
* The Hungarian National Museum;
* The Art of Hungarian Reformation;
* The English Garden in Hungary
References
1904 births
1995 deaths
Writers from Budapest
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