CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

The life and character – but not the achievements – of my father, Ernst Gombrich. My father, Ernst Gombrich, was born in Vienna on 30...

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When you have two or three degrees and a couple of other strings to your bow, friends and colleagues can be flattering and start to use...

Here’s two things I have never been very good at: academic referencing and punctuation. It might seem odd that a teacher at a superb...

My friend Peter Gibson told me that if you are happy you are not supposed to want to sleep too much: you want to be awake to enjoy as...

My current job takes me out to talk to young people. I visit schools, and also they come to our university to discuss the Arts and...

As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...

The experience of life is beset with contradiction, even paradoxes. To say this is banal yet it touches the deepest parts of human...

This blog gives my intellectual and academic heritage. Paternal Grandfather: E H Gombrich and also here, at the Gombrich archive....

I guess the big deal about starting a blog is what you put out there first. I feel daunted about what stuff should first be committed for...