Julie Braun-Vogelstein
writer (1883-1971)
Julie Braun-Vogelstein (1883 – 1971) was a German-born American art historian, author, editor, and journalist.
Biography
She was born in Stettin in Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). Julie Vogelstein was the daughter of rabbi Heinemann Vogelstein and sister of rabbi de:Hermann Vogelstein, and industrialists Ludwig Vogelstein and de:Theodor Vogelstein. She studied art history and Egyptology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. In 1919, she received her PhD from Heidelberg University. In 1935, she left Germany for France and later the United States. In 1936, she went to California, and she lived in Carmel from time-to-time thereafter. She was a member of the board of the Leo Baeck Institute.
She was the secretary of Heinrich Braun (1854–1927), and became his second wife after the death of his wife Lily Braun (1865–1916). She was also the editor of Lily Braun's Collected Works.
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