Schulte mss., 1967-1992

Papers of Rainer Schulte, 1967-1992, at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Finding aid created by Mary McSparran

Creator: Schulte, Rainer, 1937-
Title: Schulte mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2358
Dates: 1967-1992
Quantity:

Quantity: 5 Boxes

Quantity: 5 standard

Abstract: The Schulte mss., 1967-1992, consists of the correspondence and translations of poet and translator Rainer Schulte, 1937- .
Location: Lilly - Stacks
Language: English , French , German , Spanish; Castilian .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

Rainer Schulte, 1937-, was born in Simmern, Germany, on 8 July 1937. He studied philosophy and music at the University of Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, and completed a masterclass in piano at the Music Academy in Darmstadt. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the 1958-1959 academic year. Schulte completed his M.A. in English, romance languages, and philosophy at the University of Mainz in 1962 and his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Michigan in 1965. He taught comparative literature at Ohio University from 1965 to 1975 and joined the literature and humanities faculty at the University of Texas-Dallas in 1975. Schulte has translated poems from German, French, and Spanish and was the editor of Mundus Artium: A Journal of International Literature and the Arts from 1967 to 1987. He is currently the editor of Translation Review and is director of The Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas-Dallas.

Scope and Contents

The Schulte mss., 1967-1992, consists of the correspondence and translations of poet and translator Rainer Schulte, 1937- . Several of the files in the collection relate to issues of Mundus Artium and translations of such writers as Vicente Aleixandre, Georg Britting, and Ivan Goll. Individual correspondence files include Alain Bosquet, Juan Liscano, W.S. Merwin, Jean Orizet, Margaret Sayers Peden, and Gregory Rabassa. Also present is a folder of fourteen photographs of Jorge Luis Borges.

Arrangement

The correspondence and translation files are arranged alphabetically by author name, except the photographs of Borges which are at the end of the collection.

Restrictions

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

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

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift: 2002, 2012

Collection Inventory

Schulte mss.

Quantity: 100 Items

Quantity: (5 boxes)

box 1
Correspondence
box 1
Aleixandre, Vicente
box 1
Benn, Gottfried
box 1
Bonnefoy, Ives
box 1
Bosquet, Alain
box 1
Botero, Fernando
box 1
Britting, Georg

Physical Description: (9 folders)

box 1
Goll, Ivan

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 1
Gonzalez, Angel
box 1
Liscano, Juan
box 1
Merwin, W.S.
box 1
Orizet, Jean
box 1
Peden, Margaret S
box 1
Porpetta, Antonio
box 1
Rabassa, Gregory
box 1
Supervielle, Jules
box 1
Winston, Clara
box 1
Photographs of Jorge Luis Borges
box 2-5
Student theses
box 3
Audio tapes