Correspondence with Richard and Hilda von Mises, 1947-1960.

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Correspondence with Richard and Hilda von Mises, 1947-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81716167

Includes 28 letters from Steiner to Richard and Hilda von Mises concerning professional life and Austrian colleagues, one letter from Hilda von Mises to Steiner referring to letters by Baladine Klossowska (known as Merline), and three letters from Klossowska to Hilda von Mises mentioning an oil painting of Klossowska, Rainer Maria Rilke's book entitled Letters to Merline, and her son Balthus' exhibition in New York.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

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 ...

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...

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...

Geiringer, Hilda, 1893-1973

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Geiringer (1893-1973) taught mathematics at Wheaton College and was research fellow in mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Hilda Geiringer, 1914-1973 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973130 ...

Balthus, 1908-2001

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French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rome, to John Rewald, 1963 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870246 ...

Merline,

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