Stefan Zweig autographs collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists mainly of correspondence from the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig with various friends and acquaintances, acquired by the Leo Back Institute in New York through donations and auctions. Also included are copies and a few printed materials.
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:
Eisemann; Artur Fischer-Colbrie; Wolfgang Goetz; Dr. Guggenheim; Paul Hirsch; Henry Joske; Hellmut Meyer; Max Rieser; Ella Spiero; Oskar Schmitz; Frau Woltinski; and Paul Zesch.
Dates
- 1915-1942
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and some English.
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
Stefan Zweig was born November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria into a family of wealthy industrialist. He studied in Austria, France, and Germany, earning his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna. After a short stop as literary editor of the Neue Freie Presse under Theaodor Herzl, Stefan Zweig became a most prolific and widely read critic and author of novels, biographies, plays, etc. In 1913 he settled in Salzburg, getting married to Friderike von Winternitz in 1914. During World War I he worked in the archives of the Austrian Armed Forces and became afterwards one of the great proponents of peaceful coexistence in Europe, living in Salzburg and travelling widely. After Austria’s Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938, Zweig became a British citizen, and in 1940, after a lecture tour in South America, he settled in Brazil. Disillusioned and isolated, Zweig committed suicide with his second wife, Charlotte E. Altmann, in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro on February 23, 1942.
Extent
4 Folders
Abstract
The collection consists mainly of correspondence from the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig with various friends and acquaintances, acquired by the Leo Back Institute in New York through donations and auctions. Also included are copies and a few printed materials.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 2 series.
Other Finding Aid
Copies of 9 catalog cards for the initial autographs collection in folder 1.
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Obituaries and other clippings have been removed to the Stefan Zweig clipping collection, AR 1476.
- Archival materials
- Autographs (manuscripts)
- Brazil -- Emigration and immigration
- Correspondence
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
- Jewish authors
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Petrópolis (Brazil)
- Photographs
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz, 1882-1971
- Zweig, Lotte, 1908-1942
- Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942
- Title
- Guide to the Stefan Zweig autographs collection, 1915-1942 AR 834
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Hermann Teifer and LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- February 2013:: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
