Henry Sagan papers, 1948-1959.

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Henry Sagan papers, 1948-1959.

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Correspondence and papers relating to Dr. Sagan's Rilke connections in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. There is material about Anton Kippenberg, owner of Insel-Verlag, correspondence with Herbert Steiner and Ernst Zinn, co-editors with Paul Obermüller of the catalog of Mises Rilke collection at Harvard, letters from the wife of Mises, from the editor of Die Zeit, Margrit Westhaus, and others including B. Morse and Rilke's daughter, Ruth Sieber-Rilke. Also included are corrected galley proofs of an article about Rilke by Claire Goll, n.d., a conference paper by Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, "Memories of Rainer Maria Rilke, " 1951, an unsigned typescript, "A visit to Prof. Anton Kippenberg, " n.d., clippings about Rilke from German-language newspapers, Rilke bibliographies, and English translations of several Rilke poems by J. B. Leishman, n.d.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...

Sieber-Rilke, Ruth, 1901-1972

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Obermuller, Paul

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Steiner, Herbert, 1892-1966

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Steiner (1892-1966) was an Austrian writer, poet and publisher. Richard von Mises was an Austrian-born mathematician, engineer, and positivist philosopher; his wife Hilda (Geiringer) von Mises was an Austrian mathematics professor. Both were Harvard University faculty members. Letters are in German. From the description of Correspondence with Richard and Hilda von Mises, 1947-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81716167 ...

Leishman, J. B. (James Blair), 1902-1963

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Westhaus, Margrit.

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Von Mises, Richard, 1883-1953

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Von Mises, mathematician and philosopher of science, was Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard. He collected German and Austrian literature, and particularly the works of Rainer Maria Rilke. From the description of Papers, 1908-1950. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357330 Von Mises was an Austrian-born American mathematician, engineer, and positivist philosopher who notably advanced statistics and probability theory. Rilke was...

Von Mises, Margit.

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Morse, B.J.

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Sagan, Henry

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Bibliographer of Rainer Maria Rilke, and collector of his works -- probably had the second largest Rilke collection in the United States. Original name, Heinrich Sagan, he emigrated from Germany in 1935. Doctor of Medicine. From the description of Henry Sagan papers, 1948-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448097 Dr. Henry Sagan was a major 20th-century collector of manuscripts of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The correspondence in this collection documents ...

Blumenthal-Weiss, Ilse, 1899-

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Goll, Claire, 1891-1977

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Kippenberg, Anton, 1874-1950

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