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Creator
Bernays, Jacob, 1824-1881
Call number
MssCol 270
Physical description
.2 linear feet (1 v.)
Language
Correspondence is in German
Preferred Citation
Jacob Bernays correspondence, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Collection consists of letters from Bernays to Christian Josias Karl von Bunsen and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, and letters to Bernays from Christian A. Brandis, C.J.K. von Bunsen, Georg Bunsen, Heinrich Graetz, Friedrich Max-Müller, Theodor Mommsen, and Mark Pattison.

Biographical/historical information

Jacob Bernays (1824-1881) was a German professor of Greek and librarian at the University of Bonn.

Scope and arrangement

Collection consists of letters from Bernays to Christian Josias Karl von Bunsen and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, and letters to Bernays from Christian A. Brandis, C.J.K. von Bunsen, Georg Bunsen, Heinrich Graetz, Friedrich Max-Müller, Theodor Mommsen, and Mark Pattison.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift, Aron, William, 1964

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

Alternative form available

Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library