Margarete Kollisch papers, 1910-1979.

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Margarete Kollisch papers, 1910-1979.

The collection includes copies of published books from Bergland Publishers and the Osterreichische Verlagsanstalt, typescripts of poetry and other writing in German, English and French; and copies of her correspondence with Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas, Dr. Emil Staiger of Zurich, and notable others.

0.3 cubic ft.

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Kollisch, Margarete, 1893-1979

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Born on December 9, 1893 in Vienna, Austria, Margarete Moller studied modern philology and earned a teaching certificate at the University of Vienna in 1917. She married Otto Kollisch in 1923, had three children, and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She lived in Staten Island, NY until her death in 1979. Margarete wrote poems, prose, short stories, and fairytales in her native German language. Kollisch's writings were often about the political turmoil of war and the role of women in socie...