Box Coll-2106 - Box 1

Scope and Contents Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801-1888), orientalist, leading Arabist, 2 Autograph Letters Signed.3 letters.- Letter 1: 19 October 1846. Letter accompanying a delivery of a book and a journal. Fleischer points out that accepting the journal obligates his correspondent to buy the whole year's publications of that journal.- Letter 2: 25 March 1855. Fleischer returns a book he has borrowed from a colleague and apologises for keeping it so long.- Letter 3: 8 November...

Scope and Contents Othmar Frank (1770-1840), orientalist, Autograph Letter Signed (fragment), 1815.1 letter, 1 note (watermark of an imperial eagle), 1 blank piece of paper (visually matching the note, watermark "Reichsadler" (imperial eagle)). Letter: 5 February 1815. Partial letter, only the last page is present. It is a report on Frank's Sanskrit studies at the East India College in Hertford near London. Note: undated, purple crayon. "XXXX Sanscrit"Notes...

Scope and Contents Pascual Gayangos y Arce (1809-1897), Arabist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1841.1 Letter 19 March 1841, Oxford. Letter addressed to a Lord, whom Stumpff notes to be Haughton. Gayangos y Arce asks if he would like his colleague to transcribe and translate works at the library at El Escorial. He also asks if the addressee would help him loan a manuscript from the Asiatique Society's Library, and asks for help in understanding a passage he is studying. Notes...

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Johannes Gildemeister (1812-1890), orientalist, Autograph Document Signed, 1861.

1 character reference. 10 November 1861. Gildemeister gives Karl Dziatzko a good reference.

Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information about Gidemeister and Dziatzko, purchase information.

Transcription included in the file? Yes.

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Karl Geldner (1852-1929), Iranian scholar, Autograph Letter Signed, 1889.

1 letter. 27 November 89. Geldner sends his correspondent a manuscript and notes that it is in Telugu, not Sanskrit.

Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, physical description of the letter, purchase information.

Transcription included in the file? Yes.

Scope and Contents Helmuth von Glasenapp (1891-1963), Indologist, 2 Autograph Letters Signed.3 letters, 1 postcard.- Letter 1: 21 January 1859. Glasenapp asks Prof. Ernst Benz to answer a questionnaire about how German philosophers see India.- Postcard: 31 January 1859. Glasenapp thanks Benz for answering the questionnaire.- Letter 2: 16 February 1859. Glasenapp informs Benz about the progress of his work on India.- Letter 3: 04 February 1861. Glasenapp tells Benz which academics...

Scope and Contents Robert Göbl (1895-1987), historian, 2 Autograph Letters Signed (Kabul 1962).4 letters.- Letter 1: 20 January 1956. Copy of a letter from Franz Altheim to Fritz Schachermeyr, in which Göbl is mentioned as Altheim's "son" (protégé).- Letter 2: 4 July 1962. Copy of a letter from Manfred Mayrhofer to Fritz Schachermeyr in which Göbl is mentioned. Mayrhofer is telling Schachermeyr how essential it is to find a good post for a promising academic like Göbl. A copy of...

Scope and Contents Colmar Baron von der Goltz (Pasha) (1843-1916), Prussian and Ottoman general, Autograph Letter Signed Baghdad, 1916, addendum.2 copies of a photograph, 1 letter and 1 envelope, 1 entry from an auction catalogue concerning a postcard from an officer serving under Goltz.- Photographs: A black and white picture of a wall with tall trees. There are large, rectangular memorials on the wall. Stumpff writes that this is the cemetery of honour of the German embassy in Therapia,...

Scope and Contents Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853), epigraphist and philologist, deciphered cuneiform script, Autograph Letter Signed, 1822.1 letter: 1 December 1822. Grotefend warns his correspondent against a fraud who travels Europe pretending to be a scholar. He has stolen some artifacts Grotefend had borrowed. He also writes about the difficulty of getting particular books and artifacts. He discusses the numbering of Roman legions under Varus and the identification of plaster casts of...

Scope and Contents Angelo De Gubernatis (1840-1913), oriental scholar, 2 Autograph Letters Signed.3 Letters. - Letter 1: 1 October, year unknown - possibly 1885. Gubernatis writes about a payment the addressee owes him for the sale of 400 Sanskrit manuscripts which he acquired during a trip to India. He had given some of the manuscripts to the National Library of Florence. He also speaks of his intention to open a public museum with his findings on his return to Italy. - Letter 2: 12 August...