Papers, ca.1920-1970.

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Papers, ca.1920-1970.

Collection includes: Biographical information and bibliographies; letters received mostly concerning book reviews and other routine professional matters; research, primarily philological, on the Turkish, Arabic and Icelandic languages; typescript book reviews and reading notes; a corrected typescript of his "Galileo's Contribution to Astronomy;" papers by Alide Eberhard ("Heimwehfragen") and Olaf Pedersen (on astronomy, for Aarhus Universitet); and obituaries for Walther Gerlach and Friedrich Dessauer. With a letter by Eduard Sachau to Aloys Sprenger, 1877 Dec. 20, concerning Sachau's latest translation and interpretation of Arabic literature, and a letter from Harris Birkeland, 1955 Dec. 14, concerning a trip to the Orient, with a song in Chinese.

ca. 100 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8224583

Getty Research Institute

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Sprenger, Aloys, 1813-1893

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Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930

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Birkeland, Harris, 1904-1961

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Hartner, Willy, 1905-1981

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German orientalist and philologist. From the description of Papers, ca.1920-1970. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79118636 ...