Georg Dehio

Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (November 22, 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – March 21, 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian.

In 1900, Dehio started the "Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte" (Handbook of German Art History), published by Ernst Wasmuth. The project is ongoing and managed by the 'Dehio-Vereinigung', Munich.

He is the namesake of the Georg Dehio Prize (Georg Dehio Book Prize).

He was laureate of the Pour le Mérite order ("Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste"), the Eagle Shield of the German Empire (Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He held honorary doctor titles in Göttingen, Tübingen, Frankfurt (Main) and Darmstadt. The 1987 discovered minor planet 48415 Dehio is named after him.

See also 
 Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (May 27, 1851, Reval (Tallinn) – February 26, 1927, Dorpat (Tartu)), internist, cousin
 Ludwig Dehio (August 25, 1888, Königsberg, Prussia – October 24, 1963, Marburg/Lahn), historian, his son
 Erhard Dehio (January 16, 1855, Reval (Tallinn) – July 12, 1940, Bad Oeynhausen), last German mayor of Reval, Georg's younger brother
Georg Dehio Book Prize
Georg Dehio Cultural Prize

External links

 
 
Céline Trautmann-Waller: Alois Riegl (1858-1905). In: Michel Espagne und Bénédicte Savoy (Hrsg.). Dictionnaire des historiens d'art allemands. CNRS Editions, Paris 2010, , S. 217-228; 405.
Georg Dehio in: Baltic Biographic Lexicon (source in German)
 

Category:1850 births
Category:1932 deaths
Category:People from Tallinn
Category:People from the Governorate of Estonia
Category:Baltic-German people
Category:German art historians
Category:German male non-fiction writers
Category:University of Strasbourg faculty
Category:Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Category:Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)