Arthur Prinz Collection - Dickinson College

This collection consists mainly of notes, research materials, and manuscripts for a book that Arthur Prinz was writing during his time as an economics professor at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book is a translation and further refinement of Prinz’s unpublished dissertation, Das Marxsche System in psychologischer Betrachtung, which examines the psychological aspects of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. The materials in this collection related to the book include handwritten and typed manuscripts, shorthand notes, clippings, and articles written by others. Many of the notes are undated and may date back as far as the 1920s and 1930s when Prinz began revising his manuscript for publication after the conferral of his doctorate in 1923. Some of the manuscript materials were taped or stapled together during revisions and are now slightly damaged as a result. Also included are handwritten lecture notes on the history of economics, foreign trade, international economics, and the economic theories of Marx and Keynes. One folder of professional correspondence and Prinz’s doctoral diploma make up the rest of the collection.

Throughout the collection, Prinz’s papers are interleaved with pages with very short descriptive notes about the materials. These notes may have been written by archivists at Dickinson College, where these records were originally processed and held until their donation to the Leo Baeck Institute in 2011. It is not clear whether these notes or the arrangement of the folders reflects any original order of the papers.