William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts

Wünsch, Albert.

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Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801

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German author and physiognomist. From the description of Vermischte physiognomische Regeln : Manuscript fuer Freunde, 1789. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497464 From the guide to the Vermischte physiognomische Regeln : Manuscript fuer Freunde, 1789, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Swiss physiognomist. From the description of Letter, 1781, Mar. 16 : Zürich. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35130848 Swiss scholar. From th...

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Goebel, Julius, 1857-1931

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Lawyer and educator. From the description of Papers of Julius Goebel, 1873-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455222 Biographical Note 1857, 23 May Born, Frankfort-on-the Main, Germany 1879 1881 Attended University of Leipzig, Leipzig, G...

Taylor, Marie Hansen, 1829-1925

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Marie Hansen Taylor was author Bayard Taylor's second wife. She came from a German family of scholars, and edited some of her husband's works; she also published several books of her own, including memoirs and a cookbook. From the description of Marie Hansen Taylor letters, 1857-1901. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56429545 Born in Gotha, Germany. Her father was the court astronomer. Married Bayard Taylor, writer, traveller, and artist, in 185...

Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

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Author, translator, and traveler. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor, 1856-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064729 American journalist. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor [manuscript], 1847-1878. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972079 From the description of Poem and letter, 1877 June 26, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972081 From the description of Letter to a member of the...

Hoffmann von Fallersleben, August Heinrich, 1798-1874

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German poet. From the description of Autograph manuscript signed : [n.p., 1829 Feb. 3]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871026 German poet, philologist, and historian of literature. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Schloss Corvey (Höxter), 14 December 1863, to an unidentified recipient, 1863 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873428 Poet, philologist, historian, and lyricist August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fal...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Storer, Horatio Robinson, 1830-1922

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Storer, a leading antiabortion advocate in Boston, was a staunch supporter of using chloroform rather than ether during obstetrical procedures. He helped establish gynecology as a legitimate medical profession. Simpson was a professor of midwifery in Edinburgh and an early experimenter with chloroform. ...

Goethe, Walther Wolfgang ˜vonœ 1818-1885

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Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860

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Anna Brownell Jameson, née Murphy, British writer and art historian. From the description of Anna Jameson manuscript material : 2 items, 1838-1850's? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 437139681 Irish writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. [John] Austin, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269528745 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Paris and Orléans, to Lady Noel Byron, ...

Claudy, Frank, 1844-1919.

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Schreiber, Carl F. (Carl Frederick), 1886-

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Carl F. Schreiber (1886-1960) was a professor in the German Department at Yale University from 1909 to 1954 and curator of the William A. Speck Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1928 to 1960. From the description of Carl F. Schreiber papers, circa 1910-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186811 Carl F. Schreiber was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Hugo Friedrich, was a merchant; his mother was Adelaide Rueter. Schreiber received his ...

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August, 1785-1858

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880-09 Nemet︠s︡kiĭ pisatelʹ , publit︠s︡ist i literaturnyĭ kritik. From the description of Varnhagen von Ense Karl August (1785-1858). Fond 221, 1805-1857. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122777154 ...

Ehrhardt, Georg, b. 1862.

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Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867

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Henry Crabb Robinson was an English barrister and foreign correspondent, reporting from the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1811 he began keeping a diary, in which he recorded thoughts and observation on friends and acquaintances, including most of the major literary figures in England and continental Europe. His diary remains an invaluable resource for Anglophiles and students of European Romanticism. From the description of Henry Crabb Robinson letter to Tom Taylor, 1863 M...

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

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Dramatist and poet. From the description of Friedrich Schiller collection, 1883-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980966 German poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed "Sch." : Weimar, to W.G. Becker, 1804 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634316 From the description of Wilhelm Tell. Act I, Scene 4 : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned, [ca. 1804]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635377 From the des...

Müller, Friedrich von, 1779-1849

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Weimar chancellor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Weimar, to Bettin von Arnim, 1832 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613080 ...

Wunsch, Albert, 1944-

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Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928

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William A. Speck, the son of German immigrants, was born in New York City in 1864. A pharmacist by profession, he amassed the largest Goethe collection outside of Germany. In 1913, he and his collection came from Haverstraw, New York to Yale, where he served as curator of the Speck Collection until his death in 1928. For further biographical information on William A. Speck and a general history and description of the Speck Collection, see the finding aid for the William A. Speck Collection of Go...