Hanna de Mieses Collection
Abstract
The collection holds papers of the Mieses and related families, including family correspondence, business documents and photographs. Included are letters of the chess master Jacques Mieses (1865-1954); the private and business correspondence of Adolph Koritzer, a fur trader in Leipzig, and his fiancée, Nanny Herzberg, 1856-1859; engagement letters of Marcus Pflaum and Emilie Hoeter-Hirsch, 1833; and correspondence and manuscripts of the literary historian Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931).
Dates
- 1833-1981
Creator
- Mieses, Hanna de (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German with some English, French and Judeo-German.
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
The collection was donated to the Leo Baeck Institute by Hanna de Mieses, née Koritzer, in Buenos Aires. It comprises papers of her husband’s, Walter Mieses family, as well as of her own Koritzer family, which was related to the families Pflaum and Gundelfinger-Gundolf.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Processing Information
During microfilming and consequent digitization the original order of the collection has been disrupted.
- Archival materials
- Bankers
- Chess players
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Courtship
- Critics
- Genealogical tables
- Gundelfinger, S. (Sigmund), 1846-1910
- Gundolf, Friedrich, 1880-1931
- Herzberg, Nanny
- Jewish families
- Jews -- Genealogy
- Koritzer family
- Koritzer, Adolph
- Koritzer, Frieda
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Merchants
- Mieses family
- Mieses, Jacques, 1865-1954
- Mieses, Walter
- Pflaum family
- Pflaum, Marcus
- Photographs
- Title
- Inventory of the Hanna de Mieses Family Collection, 1833-1981 AR 4644
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The inventory is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
