Early Life, Family and Training Cornelia Foss was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1931 to parents deeply embedded in the intellectual study of the past: Otto Brendel, an art historian, and Maria Weigert Brendel, an archeologist. This lineage of rigorous observation is evident in her trajectory. In 1939, she immigrated to the United States with her mother, arriving in St. Louis, Missouri. Her early years were shaped by this displacement, a…