Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptologist in the Making, 1912 through July 1946

Due to his disapproval of National Socialism the German-American curator and art historian Bernard V. Bothmer (1912-1993) saw himself forced to interrupt his study of Egyptology and lost his employment at the Egyptological department of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This biography follows Bothmer's career from his birth in Berlin-Charlottenburg and his youth as a member of the "Circle" surround...