Heinrich Alfred Schmid

Born in Basel on July 19, 1863, Heinrich Alfred Schmid was a Swiss art historian and university teacher. Standard biographical records agree that he was born and died in Basel, with his death recorded on April 1, 1951.

Reference works identify him primarily as an art historian and professor. He appears in major German-language biographical databases and academy membership records, which suggest he was a respected scholarly figure within his field.

Publicly available source pages located here offered only limited detail about his life and work, so some parts of his career remain unclear from the material I could confirm. Even so, he stands out as part of the generation that helped shape academic art history in Central Europe.