28 Facts About Lorenz Eitner

Lorenz Edwin Alfred Eitner was an art historian and museum director of the Stanford University Museum of Art.

Lorenz Eitner served in the Office of Strategic Services, and, after World War II ended, provided materials for the Ministries Trial and the Judges' Trial.

Lorenz Edwin Alfred Eitner was born on August 27,1919, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to Katherina and William Eitner, who were Austrians.

William Eitner was a doctor of law, though never practised, born in Vienna in 1884; prior to World War I, he worked in an Austrian ministry.

Lorenz Eitner's mother, born from an Austrian father and American mother, was from a family of industrialist makers of bentwood furniture.

Lorenz Eitner was baptized as a Catholic, but his family was not particularly observant.

Lorenz Eitner went to the German School, which was undergoing Nazification ineptly, because the teachers were new to it.

Lorenz Eitner's father confiscated his poster collection when they arrived in America.

Lorenz Eitner received his bachelor's degree in English literature from Duke University in 1940.

Lorenz Eitner did not intend to pursue English literature as a career; he was interested in art history even then.

Lorenz Eitner was the editor of The Archive, the local monthly.

Lorenz Eitner was drafted into the United States military in 1943 as a non-citizen enemy alien.

Lorenz Eitner was required to submit his short-wave radio to the local policy station.

Lorenz Eitner trained as a combat engineer in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Lorenz Eitner applied for his citizenship during that time, and was granted it.

Lorenz Eitner was accompanied by Courtlandt Canby, a musicologist Eitner met at Princeton.

Lorenz Eitner remained to talk to Canby, and Canby revealed that the OSS was actually recruiting for research and analysis, and that the wrong speech had been given.

Lorenz Eitner was initially stationed in Washington, DC, then transferred to London, then Paris after Capture of Paris.

Lorenz Eitner was head analyst for the Ministries Division of the Office of Chief of Counsel, starting in August 1946.

Lorenz Eitner became a professor at the University of Minnesota in 1949 and taught for fourteen years.

Lorenz Eitner's first daughter, Maria "Christy" was born on September 27,1947, and Eitner planted a sapling taken from the shores of Lake Carnegie on 221C Halsey Street, Princeton, that same day.

Lorenz Eitner would have two more daughters, Katherina and Claudia.

Lorenz Eitner was made the Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Art Emeritus at Stanford University.

Lorenz Eitner was concurrently installed as the chair of the departments of art and of architecture of Stanford University Museum of Art in 1963.

Lorenz Eitner significantly revived the museum from its slump from the 1906 earthquake; this was done by refurbishing galleries, strengthening collections, and instituting a program of exhibitions, educational services, and publications.

Lorenz Eitner used Stanford University's lack of care about the museum to act decisively, allowing fast purchases of art items.

Lorenz Eitner retired in 1989, two months before the Loma Prieta earthquake closed the museum for ten years.

Lorenz Eitner was survived by his wife of 62 years, Gertrude.