Eduard Gans Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains information about the Gans family as well as materials related to the jurist Eduard Gans and his descendant Edward Gans, a numismatist.
Series I: Genealogy of Gans and Lande Families contains family trees, correspondence and other genealogical materials about the Gans and Lande families.
Series II: Eduard Gans contains materials by and about Eduard Gans, such as photographs, articles, speeches and obituaries.
Series III: Gans Family Correspondence contains genealogical correspondence as well as correspondence concerning foundation of a Jewish publishing firm, (1936-1937) with Leon Algazi, Benno Balan, Paul Emden, Edmond Fleg, Victor Gollencz, Oskar Guttmann, Ernst Hainauer, Emil Hauser, Henri Hinrichsen, Paul Hirsch, Industrie und Handelskammer, Berlin, Gerhart Jacoby, Alfred Kalmus, Paul Kern, S. Kramarsky, Leonid Kreutzer, Maria Lanckoronska, Frederic Lederer, Otto Lilien, Kurt Loewenstein, Darius Milhaud, M. Perlzweig, Franz Roizenstein, Robert Robitschek, Martin Rosenblueth, Richard Schauer, Kurt Singer, Arthur Stern, Bruno Walter, Max Warburg, Karl Wiener, Hans Wolff.
The bulk of the collection consists of Series IV: Numismatics and contains Edward Gans' correspondence related to numismatics.
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Gans, Edward; Gans, Isaac Jacob; Algazi, Leon; Balan, Benno; Emden, Paul; Fleg, Edmond; Gollancz, Victor; Guttmann, Oskar; Hainauer, Ernst; Hauser, Emil; Hinrichson, Henri; Hirsch, Paul; Jacoby, Gerhardt; Kalmus, Alfred; Kern, Paul; Kramarsky, S.; Kreutzer, Leonid; Lanckoronska, Maria; Laube, Heinrich; Lederer, Frederic; Lilien, Otto; Loewenstein, Kurt; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Milhaud, Darius; Perlzweig, rabbi; Roizenstein, Franz; Rosenblueth, Martin; Schaaf, Friedrich; Schauer, Richard; Singer, Kurt; Stern, Arthur; Walter, Bruno; Warburg, Max; Wiener, Karl; Wolff, Hans
The following families are mentioned in this collection: Gans family; Lande family
Dates
- 1796-1982
Creator
- Gans, Edward (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Collection is microfilmed (MF 627).
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Eduard Gans (1798-1839) was a jurist and professor of law in Berlin. Together with Leopold Zunz he founded the Society for Jewish Culture and Science in 1819. He was a disciple of Hegel and converted to Christianity in 1825.
Edward Gans was a banker in Germany. After he immigrated to the US he became a dealer of ancient coins and fine arts of various kinds. He donated his coin collection together with an archive containing book publications on seals and similar objects, sets of archaeological magazines, and his correspondence with experts in various fields to the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
Extent
3 Linear Feet
Abstract
The collection contains information about the Gans family as well as materials related to the jurist Eduard Gans and his descendant Edward Gans, a numismatist.
Arrangement
- Series I: Genealogy of Gans and Lande Families
- Series II: Eduard Gans
- Series III: Gans Family Correspondence
- Series IV: Numismatics
- Series V: Photographs
- Oversized Materials
- Misc. Materials
Microfilm
Collection is available on 10 reels of microfilm (MF 627).
- Reel 1: 1/0 - 1/33
- Reel 2: 1/34 - 1/36
- Reel 3: 1/37 - 2/5
- Reel 4: 2/6 - 2/10
- Reel 5: 2/11 - 2/27
- Reel 6: 2/28 - 2/66
- Reel 7: 3/1 - 3/5
- Reel 8: 3/6 - 3/18
- Reel 9: 3/19 - 3/21
- Reel 10: 3/22 - 3/28
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
General
Other identifiers include: MF 55, MF 90, MF 627 Reels 1-10.
- Title
- Guide to the Eduard Gans Family Collection, 1796-1982 AR 24
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- May 24, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
