Fred Bachrach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fred Bachrach

Dutch art and literary historian

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Dec-2009

Profession: university teacher, art historian

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Albert Gustave Herbert "Fred" Bachrach, CBE (9 December 1914 – 18 December 2009) was a Dutch literary and art historian of French and German descent whose academic work featured in a number of prominent exhibitions and research works in Britain and the Netherlands and who founded the Sir Thomas Browne Institute for the study of Anglo-Dutch relations at Leiden University.
Bachrach had also served in the Dutch Army during the Second World War and spent three years as a Japanese prisoner of war, suffering starvation, torture, and deprivation that haunted him for the rest of his life.