Original documents and memorabilia relating to the Friedmann-Braun family

Title

Original documents and memorabilia relating to the Friedmann-Braun family

Shelfmark

MS. Braun 85

Summary

Folder 1: Samuel Friedmann's will, 1898, with a scheme of distribution of the estate.

Folder 2: Miscellaneous Friedmann-Braun memorabilia, mostly postcards sent to, or received by, Samuel Friedmann, Arthur Friedmann, Vally Friedmann and Marie Agnes Friedmann née Braun, 1870s-1890s. Also includes a booklet of Greek vocabulary for Homer's Odyssey by Heinrich Braun, c. 1850, and a typescript of an eulogy by Konrad Braun for Vally Friedmann, 1932.

Folder 3: Doctoral theses Ignatz Braun, 'De malignitatis in morbis notione', Berlin 1829; Heinrich Braun, 'Experimenta nonnulla ad illustrandum effectum atropini aliorumque quorandum mydriaticorum', Berlin, 1859; Arthur Friedmann, 'Ueber den Einfluss von Chloralhydrat, Chinolin, Chinin und Antipyrin auf die Wärmeproduktion von Kaninchen', Erlangen, 1890.

Folder 4: Materials relating to Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Includes photocopies of her correspondence with Albert Einstein, 1931-1953, and Max Planck, 1939-1947; correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to her death, 1990; her record of study from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin, 1909-1920; publications Das Raum-Zeit-Problem bei Kant und Einstein, 1921, and Raum, Zeit und ihre Relativität bei Poincaré, Berlin, 1914; print-off of article 'Kausalität oder Wahrscheinlichkeit' by Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, published on page 6 of the Vossische Zeitung, Abend Ausgabe for 21.10.1931; photographs of Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, 1989. Also includes a copy of Hans Schneider's doctoral thesis, 'Die Stellung Friedrich Nietzsches zum Problem der griechischen Kulturerscheinungen in seiner Jugendphilosophie', Jena, 1932.

Date

1829-1990

Language

Latin

English

German

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)