Georg Dehio

Who was Georg Dehio?

Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio, was a Baltic German art historian.

In 1900, Dehio started the Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte. The project is ongoing and managed by the 'Dehio-Vereinigung', Munich.

He is the namesake of the Georg Dehio Prize.

He was laureate of the Pour le Mérite order, the Eagle Shield of the German Empire and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He hold honorary doctor titles in Göttingen, Tübingen, Frankfurt and Darmstadt. The 1987 discovered planet 48415 Dehio is named after him.