Leonie Zuntz (1908–1942) was a German Hittitologist who settled in Britain in 1934 as refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford.
She was included in the Black Book, the list of British residents to be arrested after a Nazi invasion of Great Britain in 1940.
[2] In the late 1920s, while studying at Munich, she befriended the orientalist Fritz Rudolf Kraus.
[4] She committed suicide in 1942,[3] at 12, Norham Gardens, Oxford, and died at the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Her estate was administered by Anna Edith Zuntz, a widow.