Ludwig Tachau Collection
Scope and Content Note
The first folder contains an Abitur program and personal and professional correspondence. The bound volume contains offprints and clippings of Tachau's published writings as well as handwritten manuscripts and notes. Topics include phonetics and linguistics, language and literature pedagogy, classical studies (especially Seneca's tragedies), Jewish history, and biblical studies.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-1902
Creator
- Tachau, Ludwig, 1858- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, Latin, and Ancient Greek.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
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
Philologist, 1858-1919
Extent
2 Folders : 15 items
Abstract
This collection contains a handful of letters and a bound volume of Tachau's writings, including both handwritten manuscripts and offprints and clipings of published materials.
Other Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
Note
Several items in the bound volume were bound in a fashion that obscures the text near the gutter.
Subject
- Tachau, Ludwig, 1858- (Person)
- Vogelstein, Hermann, 1870-1942 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Ludwig Tachau Collection, 1877-1902 AR 3851
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall.
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
