Fritz Haber Collection
Scope and Content Note
Original correspondence consists of one letter each to Peter Pringsheim (1912); Joseph Koeth (1928); and A. Sommerfeld; as well as six letters to Ernst Stern (1907-1908). A handwritten 1933 letter from Fritz Haber to Chaim Weizmann in Mannern, Switzerland (6 pages) is available as a photocopy only. Also included is a typescript by Hans Schaeffer on Jews in Breslau (photocopy), Die soziale, politische und religioese Stellung der juedischen Familien in Breslau um die Jahrhundertwende 1900. The typescript is part of a letter by Hans Schaeffer to Johannes Jaenicke, also in the collection.
Dates
- 1907-1960
Creator
- Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
The 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
Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) on December 9, 1868, Haber was a chemist, professor of chemistry at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute from 1903 to 1911, when he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie. Haber received the Nobel Prize in 1919 for his work on the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. He resigned his directorship in 1933 and died in Basel on January 29, 1934.
Extent
2 Folders
Language of Materials
German
Abstract
Original correspondence consists of one letter each to Peter Pringsheim (1912); Joseph Koeth (1928); and A. Sommerfeld; as well as six letters to Ernst Stern (1907-1908). A handwritten 1933 letter from Fritz Haber to Chaim Weizmann in Mannern, Switzerland (6 pages) is available as a photocopy only. Also included is a typescript by Hans Schaeffer on Jews in Breslau (photocopy), Die soziale, politische und religioese Stellung der juedischen Familien in Breslau um die Jahrhundertwende 1900. The typescript is part of a letter by Hans Schaeffer to Johannes Jaenicke, also in the collection.
Other Finding Aid
3-page inventory.
Bibliography
- Antisemitism
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Autographs (manuscripts)
- Chemists
- Christian converts from Judaism
- College teachers
- Discrimination in education
- Family papers
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Haber family
- Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany
- Jänicke, Johannes, 1900-1979
- Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie in Berlin-Dahlem
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Photographs
- Pringsheim, Peter, 1881-1963
- Schäffer, Hans, 1886-1967
- Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951
- Stern, Ernst
- Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952
- Willstätter, Richard, 1872-1942
- World War, 1914-1918
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Zionism
- Title
- Guide to the Fritz Haber Collection, 1907-1960 AR 182
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2013
- 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
