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Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Epstein, Fritz T. 1898-1979.

Collection No.
LMC 1374

Extent
ca. 16,500 items

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
Consists of the correspondence, teaching files, and writings of Fritz Theodor Epstein, 1898-1979, historian.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

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.

Arrangement

Organized alphabetically in files as Epstein had them labeled.

Scope and Content Note

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.

• Indexing Terms

• The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

• • Names
  • Indiana University --Faculty --Archives.
  • Epstein, Fritz T. (Fritz Theodor), 1898-1979 --Correspondence.
  • Alef, Gustave.
  • Boveri, Margret, 1900-1975.
  • Byrnes, Robert Francis.
  • Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913-
  • Eckert, Georg, 1912-
  • Holborn, Hajo, 1902-1969.
  • Jelavich, Barbara, 1923-
  • Jelavich, Charles.
  • Jelinek, Yeshayahu A.
  • Meinecke, Friedrich, 1862-1954.
  • Mosely, Philip E. (Philip Edward), 1905-1972.
  • Philipp, Werner, 1908-
  • Thimme, Annelise, 1918-
  • Von Klemperer, Klemens, 1916-
• • Topics
  • Historians --Indiana --Bloomington --Archives.
  • Historians --Correspondence.
  • Education
  • Indiana University

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