Correspondence with Bonn, Moritz Julius

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/175
  • Dates of Creation
      09/12/1953 - 14/09/1961
  • Language of Material
      German
  • Physical Description
      29 letters

Scope and Content

Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence concerns an article Bonn had authored for The Wiener Library Bulletin, and the approach of influential individuals in West Germany, including its president Theodor Heuss.

Administrative / Biographical History

Prof. Dr. Moritz Julius Bonn (1873-1965) was a Jewish-German economist and one of the leading experts in this field in the Weimar Republic. As soon as the Nazis came to power he was dismissed from university, and emigrated to the UK and the US. See Clavin, P., ‘A ‚Wandering Scholar‘ in Britain and the USA, 1933–1945. The Life and Work of Moritz Bonn’, in: Grenville, A. (ed.), http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/53661, Amsterdam-New York, Editions Rodopi, 2003, pp. 27–42.

Access Information

open

Personal Names

Geographical Names