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“Great name for a butterfly. It had a kind of loftiness, and I felt elevated as I walked out through the manicured gardens of the museum toward the swirling traffic of the Ringstrasse. I’d never found butterfly remains in a book before. I couldn’t wait to get to Werner’s place and tell him all about it.
The traveling scholarship that brought me to Vienna after my undergraduate degree could have taken me anywhere. Jerusalem or Cairo would have made most sense. But I was determined to study with Werner Maria Heinrich, or Universitätsprofessor Herr Doktor Doktor Heinrich, as I’d been told to address him, the Austrians being the opposite of Australians in insisting on giving a separate title for each degree earned. I’d heard about his expertise in traditional techniques—he was the world’s best at spotting forgeries because he knew more than anyone about the original crafts and materials. He was also a specialist in Hebrew manuscripts, which I found intriguing for a German Catholic of h...is generation.MoreLess
The traveling scholarship that brought me to Vienna after my undergraduate degree could have taken me anywhere. Jerusalem or Cairo would have made most sense. But I was determined to study with Werner Maria Heinrich, or Universitätsprofessor Herr Doktor Doktor Heinrich, as I’d been told to address him, the Austrians being the opposite of Australians in insisting on giving a separate title for each degree earned. I’d heard about his expertise in traditional techniques—he was the world’s best at spotting forgeries because he knew more than anyone about the original crafts and materials. He was also a specialist in Hebrew manuscripts, which I found intriguing for a German Catholic of h...is generation.MoreLess
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