Reflections on Edgar Wind – The Edgar Wind Journal

Oswyn Murray
University of Oxford

Volume 7, October 2024

Abstract This brief review delivered at the launch of Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment (Trinity College, Oxford, 10 April 2024) discusses Wind’s role in the transfer of the Warburg Library from Hamburg to London in 1933 and his quarrel with Fritz Saxl in 1945. It also considers Wind’s reflections on encyclopaedism, the example of Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae and the consequences of Wind’s 1945 refusal of the directorship of the Warburg Institute.

Keywords Warburg Institute; Encyclopaedism; Athenaeus; Chastleton; Sibylline Oracles

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