Wolfgang von Wurzbach

Wolfgang von Wurzbach (born 3 June 1879 in Vienna - 10 February 1957 ibid) was an Austrian Romance language scholar, literary scholar, and collector.

He was a great-grandson of the Ljubljana lawyer Maximilian von Wurzbach, who had been raised to the nobility, and the grandson of the biographical lexicographer Constantin von Wurzbach.

From 1922 he was associate professor for Romance languages and literatures at the University of Vienna, was dismissed in 1938 because of his mother's Jewish descent and was reinstated as full professor for Romance philology in 1946.

[1] Wurzbach was a well-known collector of souvenirs from Viennese personalities (autographs, portrait lithographs, medals).

He bequeathed his collections to various museums in Vienna, including his important collection of Dutch paintings from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, which he inherited from his maternal grandfather.