Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (1903 – 1992) was a German American author, professor, bibliographer, and rare books expert.
He was curator of rare books at Columbia University and assistant professor of book arts at Columbia's School of Library Service.
After World War II, he worked with the Monuments Men.
From 1944 to 1945, Lehmann-Haupt served as Deputy Chief of the German policy desk at the Office of War Information in London. In 1945 he joined Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Germany as part of the Information Control Division. In 1946 he began his work with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit in Berlin. He was the first to analyze and classify the records of the SS Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage), which revealed the extent of Himmler's archaeological activities in Poland and the USSR. He wrote Art Under a Dictatorship (1954).
Lehmann-Haupt is included on the roster of The Heroes | Monuments Men and Women Foundation.
In 1969, Lehmann-Haupt began teaching at the University of Missouri, where he was named professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1974.
In 1980 Lehmann-Haupt was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz.
Some of Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt's publications:
- Fifty Books About Bookmaking. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933
- The Book in America. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1939
- Seventy Books About Bookmaking. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941
- One Hundred Books About Bookmaking. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949
- Art Under a Dictatorship. Oxford, 1954
- Current Trends in Antiquarian Books. 1961. Library Trends, Vol. 9, No. 4, April.
- The Life of the Book: How the Book is Written, Published, Printed, Sold and Read. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1975
- The Gottingen Model Book: A Facsimile Edition and Translations of a Fifteenth-Century Illuminators' Manual. University of Missouri Press, 1979.
More:
"Hellmut (Emile) Lehmann-Haupt." CA Online, 2003.
(100) Rare Books Monument Man - by Kathleen McCook (includes headshot).
Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut Emil | Monuments Men and Women | Monuments Men Foundation
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt - Wikipedia
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Distinguished University Professor
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University of South Florida
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