Collection ID: LMC 1374
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Summary

Creator:
Epstein, Fritz T. 1898-1979.
Abstract:
Consists of the correspondence, teaching files, and writings of Fritz Theodor Epstein, 1898-1979, historian.
Extent:
11 Boxes
Language:
Materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Item], Epstein mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Fritz Theodor Epstein, 1898-1979, was a historian. Epstein was born in Saargemuend, Germany in 1898, received a PhD in history from the University of Berlin in 1924 and moved to London in 1933, then the United States in 1936 to escape Nazi persecution. He served as a faculty member at Harvard University, 1937-1943, worked for the U.S. State Department for a time, became Curator of the Central European and Slavic Collections at Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and in 1962 joined the faculty of Indiana University as professor and curator of the Slavic collections. Epstein retired in 1969 and returned to Germany to live.

Scope and Content:

Consists of the correspondence, teaching files, and writings of Fritz Theodor Epstein, 1898-1979, historian. The collection contains his correspondence with many historians, academic journals, and institutions relating to research for his own writings and on behalf of the Indiana University Libraries collections; files relating to professional meetings, organizations, and publications; materials from his teaching years at Harvard, from his State Department work, from his years at the Hoover Institution, and relating to his summer exchange courses at Hamburg University during the late 1960's.

Correspondents in the collection include:

  1. Gustave Alef
  2. Norbert Angermann
  3. Margret A. Boveri
  4. Robert Francis Byrnes
  5. Gordon Alexander Craig
  6. Alexander Dallin
  7. Eugene Arthur Davidson
  8. Charles Floyd Delzell
  9. Chester Verne Easum
  10. Georg Eckert
  11. Fritz Theodore Epstein
  12. Fritz Fischer
  13. George Fischer
  14. Willard Allen Fletcher
  15. Hans Wilhelm Gatzke
  16. Jacques Grunewald
  17. Oron James Hale
  18. George Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten
  19. Erwin Hoelzle Hajo Holborn
  20. Walther Hubatsch
  21. Milan Ivsic
  22. Hans Adolf Jacobsen
  23. Barbara Brightfield Jelavich
  24. Charles Jelavich
  25. Yeshayahu Andrew Jelinek
  26. Louis de Jong
  27. Harro Kieser
  28. Walther Kirchner
  29. Robert Lewis Koehl
  30. Walter Lipgens
  31. Alma Maria Luckau
  32. Werner Markert
  33. Klaus Mehnert
  34. Freidrich Meinecke
  35. Boris Meissner
  36. Henry Cord Meyer
  37. Henri Jules Michel
  38. Wolfgang Mitter
  39. Guenther Moltmann
  40. Charles Morley
  41. Philip Edward Mosely
  42. George Bernard Noble
  43. Dagmar Horna Perman
  44. Werner Philipp
  45. Georg von Rauch
  46. Kurt Rheindorf
  47. Gotthold Rhode
  48. Hans Rothfels
  49. Radmila R. Savic
  50. Hildegard Schaeder
  51. Peter Scheibert
  52. Otto Ernst Schüddenkopf
  53. Klaus Schwabe
  54. William Lawrence Shirer
  55. John Leslie Snell
  56. Raymond James Sontag
  57. Bertold Spuler
  58. Paul Robinson Sweet
  59. Annelise Thimme
  60. Johannes Ullrich
  61. Klemens von Klemperer
  62. Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg
Acquisition information:
Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1978
Arrangement:

Organized alphabetically in files as Epstein had them labeled.

Physical location:
ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility)

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is open for research.

Many collections are housed offsite; retrieval requires advance notice. Please make an appointment a minimum of one week in advance of your visit.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Photography and digitization may be restricted for some collections. Copyright restrictions may apply. Before publishing, researchers are responsible for securing permission from all applicable rights holders, then filling out the Permission to Publish form.

PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Epstein mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu