Honours and Awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1966)
- Knight Bachelor (1972)
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1975)
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1977)
- Order of Merit (1988)
- Balzan Prize for History of Art of the West (1985)
- City of Vienna Prize for Humanities (1986)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Science Foundation (1988)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna (1999)
In the Favoriten (10th District) of Vienna, the Gombrichgasse was named for him in 2009.
In 2011, the Arts Historical Society of the University of Vienna created the "Sir Ernst Gombrich-Young Investigator Award" to encourage and reward highly qualified graduates of the discipline of art history.
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