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Aby Warburg Prize

Award

Aby Warburg Prize
Awarded for	Science prize
Sponsored by	City of Hamburg
Location	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Reward(s)	€25,000
First awarded	1980
Website	www.hamburg.de/bkm/kulturpreise/3605240/aby-warburg-preis/

The Aby Warburg Prize (German Aby Warburg-Preis; formerly Aby M. Warburg-Preis) is a science prize of the city of Hamburg. It was established in 1979. Since 1980, it is donated by the senate of the city for excellence in the humanities and social sciences. It is named after the Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg.^[1] The prize is worth 25,000 Euros and awarded every four years.^[1]^[2] Young scientists will receive a scholarship of 10,000 euros.^[3]

Award winners

1980 Jan Białostocki, art historian
1984 Meyer Schapiro, art historian
1988 Michael Baxandall, art historian
1992 Carlo Ginzburg, historian
1996 Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist
2000 Natalie Zemon Davis, historian
2002 Rüdiger Campe, professor of German literature
2004 Horst Bredekamp, art historian
2008 Werner Hofmann, art historian
2012 Martin Warnke, art historian
2016 Sigrid Weigel, professor of German literature^[4]
2020 Georges Didi-Huberman, art historian^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Preis des Hamburger Senats". hamburg.de (in German). 8 August 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "Kulturpreise.de : Aby Warburg-Preis, Ehrenpreis". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "Kulturpreise.de : Aby Warburg-Preis, Förderpreis". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "Sigrid Weigel erhält Aby Warburg-Preis der Stadt Hamburg". ZfL Berlin (in German). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "Georges Didi-Huberman wird geehrt". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 27 August 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2021.