Archives 1886-1936.

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Archives 1886-1936.

Correspondence with August Bebel 1889-1912, Eduard Bernstein 1888-1917, Karl Kautsky 1916, Werner Sombart 1886-1929 and others; personal documents relating to his honorary degree, Zurich 1930, and his seventieth birthday; manuscripts D̀ie ethische Grundlagen des Sozialismus', S̀ozialismus und Kapitalismus', etc.; texts, notes and printed documents relating to lectures and articles on criminal law, child protection, alcohol and labourers, the SPS, the general strikes and trials in Basel, etc. 1918-1919, life and works of Goethe, etc.; printed material including press clippings of his articles in the Juristische Rundschau 1908-1914; photocopies of correspondence by Otto Lang and Gustav Eckstein with many persons, belonging to the archive of the SPS in Berne, 1888-1934.

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Lang, Otto

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Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland 1863, died in Zurich 1936; studied law at German universities; examining magistrate 1888-1893 and judge 1893-1900 in Zurich, member and eventually president at the cantonal High Court 1900-1916 and 1920-1935; joined the social democratic movement in the 1880s, took an active part in the formation of the Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SPS) in 1889, author in 1905 of its program and longtime member of the party's Executive; social democratic member of the...