A Remembrance from Leonie Gombrich:
My grandfather Ernst Gombrich did not usually write for
children. Nor did he study history at university: art history was
his subject. He was therefore delighted and astonished in almost
equal degree that his very first book, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte
fur junge Leser, should have endured so long and found so many
friends all over the world.
He wrote it as a young man and in a considerable rush, and later
considered that both these factors contributed to its long lived
appeal. For this little book would never have been written at all
were it not for the unusual circumstances that presented themselves
in Vienna in 1935.
When the book came out, in 1936, it was very well received,
reviewers assuming that my grandfather must be an experienced
teacher. Though publication was stopped by the Nazisbecause they
considered the outlook too pacifist it was reissued thirty years
later. My grandfather added a new final chapter and was once again
delighted by the books success, and the many translations that have
followed.
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