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Columbia University Deutsches Haus records, 1911-1975 0.83 Linear Feet (2 document boxes)

Columbia University. Deutsches Haus

Correspondence, documents, portraits and photographs of the Deutsches Haus. The correspondence files consist of General Correspondence for the letters K-M, 1929-1943 and a special group which relate to the founding of the Haus in 1929. There are letters and tributes from many well known people on the occasion of the opening of the Haus. There are also correspondence documenting its function as an information center for German Studies. Among the correspondence are: Max Brod, George Eastman, Kuno Francke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Edwin Markham, Andrew Mellon, Max Planck, Arthur Schnitzler, Jakob Wasserman, Arnold Zweig, and Stephan Zweig

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Paul Oskar Kristeller papers, 1910-1989 115 linear feet (172 boxes: 82 document boxes, 72 record storage cartons, 18 notecard boxes, 275 microfilm reels)

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 1905-1999
Professional and personal papers of the German émigré scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller. Kristeller was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University and a world renowned scholar of Renaissance humanism and Renaissance philosophy who published widely, notably his major catalog of uncataloged manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, the Iter Italicum.
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