Pevsner

Nikolaus Pevsner architectural historian.

British historian of art and, especially, architecture.

Studied at universities in Germany and taught at Göttingen University (1929–33).

Moved to England to escape Nazism.

Taught at London, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities.

Best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship.

Conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953– ); many individual volumes of which are regarded as classics.