A Little History of the World

Professor Sir Ernst H. Gombrich, O.M., C.B.E., F.B.A., verstorben im November 2001, zählt zu den größten und einflussreichsten Kunsthistorikern überhaupt. 1909 in Wien geboren, schloss er sich 1936 dem Warburg-Institut in London an, dessen Leiter er wurde. Von 1959 bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahre 1976 war er Professor für Kunstgeschichte an der University of London. 1988 wurde er zum Mitglied des Order of Merit ernannt. Gombrich erhielt weltweit zahlreiche Preise.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb.
In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

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