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Elise Lotte Morgen (verh. Wiesner)

Born: 12-28-1912
Faculty: Philosophical School
Category: Expelled student

Elise Lotte MORGEN (married: Lottie WIESNER), born on December 28th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), died on January 26th, 2008 in New York, USA, daughter of Igo Morgen (merchant), lived in Wien 3, Hainburger Straße 20. She was enrolled from 1935 until finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 3rd year of her studies and took courses in Art History (in the spring term 1938 she requested to continue her studies in the context of the Numerus clausus of Jewish Students, but was rejected).
She emigrated to the USA.

Her name is mentioned at the monument 'Denkmal für Ausgegrenzte, Emigrierte und Ermordete des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität Wien' at the Campus of the University of Vienna.
The exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" (January 22nd - May 14th, 2010) at the Department of History of Art of the University of Vienna is dedicated to the memory of Elise Lotte Morgen and 20 other former students of the University of Vienna focused on art history.

Lit.: Interview at Austrian Heritage Collection at Leo Baeck Institute New York [AHC 1453]; Memorial/Exhibition "Wiener Kunstgeschichte gesichtet" 2008; Exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" 2010.


Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, fall term 1937/38 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, fall term 1937/38 (2nd form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, fall term 1937/38 (2nd form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, spring term 1938 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Elise Lotte Morgen, spring term 1938 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
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