Alma Wittlin


Alma Stephanie Wittlin, Alma S. Wittlin, was an Austrian writer. Her surname also appears as Wittlin-Frischauer.

Biography

Born in or near Lviv, Western Ukraine, she was educated in Vienna, receiving a doctorate in art history from the University of Vienna in 1925, and came to England in 1937. She carried out educational research at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 1952, she came to the United States and was naturalized in 1959.
In 1921, she married Paul Max Frischauer.
While in Austria, she wrote a number of successful historical novels.
Wittlin called for museums to take their role as educational institutions more seriously.
She died in Palo Alto, California.
An annual lecture given in her honour is sponsored by the International Council of Museums.

Selected works