Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt

Hellmut Otto Emil Lehmann-Haupt (1903 – March 11, 1992) was a German-American author, academic, bibliography expert, and rare books expert. After World War II, he worked with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, commonly known as the Monuments Men. His dissertation was on early book illustration. He immigrated to the United States in 1929 and started working for the Encyclopædia Britannica as an indexing editor.

In 1930, he was named curator of the rare book department of the Columbia University Library, and in 1938 he was appointed assistant professor of book arts in the School of Library Services. The Gottingen Model Book: A Facsimile Edition and Translations of a Fifteenth-Century Illuminators' Manual. University of Missouri Press, 1979.

Awards and honors Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz (Germany, 1980) Lehmann-Haupt's papers are housed in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Personal life Lehmann-Haupt married three times; his third wife was Ingeborg. He had a daughter, Roxanna, and four sons, Alexander, Carl, Christopher, and John.

In 1992, Lehmann-Haupt died in Columbia, Missouri of congestive heart failure at the age of 82.