Ernst Hans Gombrich's A Little History Of The World

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Ernst Hans Gombrich was an Austrian art historian as well as a writer. E.H. Gombrich lived in the 20th Century. Gombrich graduated from the University of Vienna. After that he worked at the Warburg University of London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During the Second World War the BBC employed him as a Radio Monitor. In 1956-1959 Gombrich was a professor of the History of Art at the University. Throughout his life Gombrich had many jobs, such as historian professor and director and a writer. Gombrich wrote many great books however I’d like to list only five of them. Some of his main books were The Story of Art was published in 1950 as his first book. His other rather fairly popular book was A Little History of the World, which was first translated in 2005, already after Gombrich death. His other more popular books were Art and Illusion, which was published in 1960, Meditations on a Hobby Horse, which was published in 1963 and the Symbolic Images, which was published in 1972. Gombrich since he was such a great author and such a great person he received many awards and honors. Some of these awards were the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, Balzan Prize in 1985, Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize in 1988 and Goethe Prize in 1994. A Little History of the World is a novel, which was written in 1985 and was first Translated into English in 2005. The book is about the history of the world. It tells us the main ideas and events that took place since the Earth was born. Some

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