Memoir of Ernst Gombrich – guest post by Richard Gombrich
The life and character – but not the achievements – of my father, Ernst Gombrich. My father, Ernst Gombrich, was born in Vienna on 30 March 1909. His father, Karl Gombrich, was a lawyer; his mother, Leonie, née Hock, was a famous piano teacher. In socio-economic terms, it was a typical middle-class family of moderate means. My father had two elder sisters, no brother. My father was born into the Austro-Hungarian empire, and remembered how as a boy he saw the funeral processio