Wolf Liebeschuetz
British historian of religion
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- PhD Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz was a German-born British historian who specialized in late antiquity. Early life John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz was born in Hamburg on 22 June 1927, the son of historian Hans Liebeschuetz and physician Rahel Plaut. His father was a prominent medievalist who taught at the University of Hamburg. The family had been wealthy, having inherited a large fortune from Wolf's great-grandfather Brach, who amassed wealth trading in Texas and Mexico though much was lost in the German inflation. The Liebeschuetz family was Jewish, and were subjected to increasing persecution following the Adolf Hitler's seizure of power by the Nazis. As a young boy, Liebeschuetz was expelled from junior school because he was Jewish, and was subsequently taught at a very small all-Jewish school. Although his family was able to escape, his teacher was eventually murdered in the Holocaust. His father was twice arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after the Kristallnacht of November 1938. The four children had received English lessons since 1934 and were sent to England on 12 December. The parents and two grandmothers followed soon after. The emigration of Hans Liebeschuetz was sponsored by the Warburg Institute, with whom the family had long been closely associated.
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