

It was published in 2005 by Yale University Press.

After his death, the translation was completed, according to his wishes, by Caroline Mustill, an assistant to Gombrich from 1995 until his death, and his granddaughter Leonie Gombrich. Gombrich insisted that only he translate the book into English. He was rewriting it for English readers when he died in 2001, at 92, in London. It was written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria, when Gombrich was 26 years old. JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī Little History of the World (originally in German, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser) is a history book by Ernst Gombrich.Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources.įind sources: "A Little History of the World" – news This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.
