Julie Braun-Vogelstein

Julie Braun-Vogelstein (1883–1971) was a German-born American art historian, author, editor, and journalist.[1][2][3][4]

Julie Braun-Vogelstein
Born
Julie Braun-Vogelstein

1883
Szczecin
Died1971 (age 89)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Art historian, author, editor, and journalist
SpouseHeinrich Braun
ParentHeinemann Vogelstein
RelativesHermann Vogelstein (brother)
Theodor Vogelstein (brother)
Ludwig Vogelstein (brother)[1]

Biography

She was born in Stettin in Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). Julie Vogelstein was the daughter of rabbi Heinemann Vogelstein and sister of rabbi de:Hermann Vogelstein, and industrialists Ludwig Vogelstein and de:Theodor Vogelstein. She studied art history and Egyptology at the University of Munich and University of Berlin.[5] In 1919 she received her PhD from the University of Heidelberg.[2] In 1935 she left Germany for France and later the United States. In 1936 she went to California, and she lived in Carmel from time-to-time thereafter.[3] She was a member of the board of the Leo Baeck Institute.[6]

She was the secretary of Heinrich Braun (1854–1927), and became his second wife after the death of his wife Lily Braun (1865–1916).[1] She was also the editor of Lily Braun's Collected Works.[7]

She wrote and edited many books; for example she wrote Art: The Image of the West (1952) and edited The Diary of Otto Braun (1924).[3][4] Otto Braun was her stepson, who died in World War I.[3]

Her husband died in 1927; they did not have any children.[5] Braun-Vogelstein died in New York City.[1][5] Services were held at Riverside Memorial Chapel.[5]

References
  1. "Guide to the Julie Braun-Vogelstein Collection, 1743-1971AR 25034 / MF 473".
  2. Commire, Anne, ed. (2002). "Julie Braun-Vogelstein". Women in World History: A biographical encyclopedia.
  3. James Karman (15 July 2015). The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Three, 1940-1962. Stanford University Press. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-0-8047-9477-0.
  4. "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek".
  5. "Dr. Julie Braun‐Vogelstein Dies; German Party Leader's Widow". The New York Times. 9 February 1971.
  6. Leo Baeck Institute; Fred Grubel (1990). Catalog of the Archival Collections. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1.
  7. Ute Lischke (2000). Lily Braun, 1865-1916: German Writer, Feminist, Socialist. Camden House. pp. 15–. ISBN 978-1-57113-169-0.


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