Harry Bober

Harry Bober (September 2, 1915 – June 17, 1988) was an American art historian, a university professor, and a writer. He was the first Avalon Professor of the Humanities a New York University (NYU). He wrote and edited several books and published numerous articles on the art, architecture and historiography of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance period.

Education and early life Abraham Herschel Bober was born on September 2, 1915, in Brooklyn, New York. The couple divorced in 1973, together they had two sons.

The 1950–51 year was spent as a senior research fellow at the Warburg Institute. Then in 1954 he returned to New York University as Avalon professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York University. He was a founding member and first secretary (1956–1959) of the International Center for Medieval Art, for which he also helped launch Gesta, its scholarly organ. During these years Bober published several facsimile editions of medieval manuscripts for Hans P. Kraus.

Career Bober taught at Harvard University from 1951 until 1954. In 1954 he returned to New York, joining the NYU faculty. He also taught at Queens College, Smith College, and Johns Hopkins University.

He died from complications from liver cancer at the age of 72, on June 17, 1988, at Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan, New York.