Edith Broch-Weisz Collection 1846-2000

Broch-Weisz, Edith

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Edith Broch-Weisz was born on December 22, 1911 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, (now Austria) into a wealthy family. Her father, Philipp Broch was a well known banker in Vienna. She attended Medical School at the University of Vienna. She and her husband, Arthur Weisz, left Austria in early March of 1938. The couple then settled in New York Edith Broch-Weisz died on January 25, 2001 From the guide to the Edith Broch-Weisz Collection, 1846-...

Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 1866-1945

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Beer-Hofmann, an Austrian poet and dramatist, emigrated to the U.S. in 1938. From the description of Compositions, 1885-1966. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122581276 From the guide to the Compositions, 1885-1966., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Richard Beer-Hofmann was born on July 11. 1866. He was the son of Hermann and Rosa Beer. His mother died within a week of his birth and after her death, he was adopted and reared b...

Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

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Lise Meitner was born in Austria on 7 November 1878, the daughter of the Viennese lawyer, Phillip Meitner. In 1901 she entered the University of Vienna, becoming Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. In the following year Meitner left Austria and went to Berlin [Germany] to study with the physicist Max Planck, becoming joint discoverer of Thorium-C in 1908. In 1912 Meitner moved on to work with Otto Hahn at the Chemical Institute, Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, in Göttingen. During the First World War ...

Broch, Philipp

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Weisz, Arthur

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