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Between Jewish Posen and Scholarly Berlin : the Life and Letters of Philipp Jaffé.

The life of Philipp Jaffé (1819-1870), from his youth in Posen; his studies with Leopold von Ranke and career - as a close friend of Theodor Mommsen - at the pinnacle of historical scholarship in Berlin, first at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and then, after his feud with Georg Heinrich Pertz,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwartz, Daniel R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.
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  • Content ; Preface ; List of Illustrations ; Abbreviations ; I. Philipp Jaffé, 1819-1870 ; Introduction ; From Posen to Berlin: From Jewish History to German History, and from Historian to Historical Philologist ; Staying in Berlin and in German History (1850-1854): An Interlude.
  • 1854-1863: The MGH Years, in Berlin and throughout Europe From Independent Scholarship to Lonely Suicide ; Berlin professorship and the Bibliotheca 42 On the heights ; Troubles 57 An embarrassing conflict with Georg Waitz ; The end ; Conclusion ; Addenda.
  • II. Letters by Philipp Jaffé, 1838-1870 Introduction ; Abbreviations for sources of the letters 94 Recipients of the letters ; Appendices ; Appendix 1. Police notice of Jaffé's suicide ; Appendix 2a. Jaffé's public statement condemning Pertz.
  • Appendix 2b. Jaffé's out-of-town distribution list for his statement: Original and transcription Appendix 3. Two references by Georg Waitz, in FDG 10 (1870), to recently deceased colleagues ; Appendix 4. "The catastrophe of 22 March 1870": Two possibilities.
  • Appendix 5. On mistakes and criticism Appendix 6. Facsimile of a letter by Jaffé ; Select bibliography ; Index.