Eric Warburg

The first biography of Eric Warburg, an extremely influential post-WWII Atlanticist who saved the Warburg Library from the Nazis in 1934.

In her life of Eric Warburg, Heufelder tells the story of the nephew of the art historian Aby Warburg, whose world-famous library Eric relocated to London and saved from the Nazis. Coming from a long line of German-Jewish bankers, Eric Warburg emerged from the looming shadow of preceding generations of Warburgs, and repurposed their liberal values to form the core of his own Atlanticist convictions.

Warburg spent the inter-war years working closely with the American branch of his family and their connections in government to promote the cause of international peace and stability in the wake of the Great War. After Hitler’s rise to power Warburg became a helper of escapees, an intelligence officer in the US Army, and later a Cold Warrior. His life, and that of Aby Warburg’s library, tells the story of Europe’s twentieth century, the legacy of which continues to inform and inspire the transatlantic partnership today.

Jeanette Erazo Heufelder is a German ethnologist. She has become known as an author and documentary filmmaker of biological and literary pieces.

Peter Lewis has had careers in university teaching and publishing and now works as a freelance translator and author.