Curriculum Vitae general and 1900-1927, 1918-1995
File
MS. Wind 1
Held in our offsite storage facility
Papers relating to Edgar Wind's biography in general, and to his early years 1900-1927, including:
- Folder 1: Copies of Wind’s curriculum vitae, 1940, 1955 and post 1967; various papers relating to entries on Edgar Wind in UK, German and US editions of Who’s Who, 1963-1969; draft entry for US edition of Who Was Who, n.d. (post 1971); and further requests for biographical information from various sources, not completed, 1960-1974. [I, 1, i; WIND 2]
- Folder 2: Papers relating to an entry on Edgar Wind for Dictionary of Art (Macmillan) including photocopies of final text and bibliography, related correspondence and enclosures, 1987-1995, notes and comments by Peter Parsons, Nigel Wilson, Margaret Wind and Bernhard Buschendorf; drafts and proofs; original bibliography. Also includes correspondence between Margaret Wind and Barbara Harvey relating to an entry on Edgar Wind for the New Dictionary of National Biography, April 1995. [I, i, ii+iia; WIND 2]
- Folder 3: 'Berlin 1900-1918’: Summary and notes by Margaret Wind on Edgar Wind’s family background and his childhood and schooldays in Berlin; copy of a school report for Edgar Wind from Kaiser-Friedrich-Schule Berlin, 1918; correspondence between Wind and his sister Felicie and his mother Laura about his father’s estate, 1944-1947, and correspondence relating to Laura Wind's estate, 1965-1970; letter from Hélène Baltrušaitis, Edgar Wind’s cousin, and article by her husband Jurgis Baltrušaitis; correspondence with and about Anny Baumann, Wind’s neighbour at Bismarckstraße 102 Berlin, 1971 and 1973; postcards relating to holidays in the Bavarian Alps and to paintings at Großherzogliches Museum Schwerin, c. 1920, with a later article about Carel Fabritius. Also includes a postcard from, and photographs by Jaynie Anderson of, Schwerin, 1995. [I, 1, iii; WIND 2]
- Folder 4: ‘University student, 1919-1920’: Summary and notes by Margaret Wind on Edgar Wind’s student years in Berlin with Ulrich von Wilamowitz, Ernst Troeltsch, Ernst Cassirer and Adolf Goldschmidt; extracts, notes and other papers relating to his studies in Freiburg in 1919-1920 under Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger; notes relating to Julius von Schlosser and Josef Strzygowski in Vienna in 1920, and to Edgar Wind’s D. Phil studies in Hamburg; letter from Dorothea van Hellermann about Adolf Goldschmidt’s eightieth birthday in 1943, with related notes. [I, 1, iv; WIND 2]
- Folder 5: ‘Hamburg, 1920-2’: Correspondence, 1968, between Wind and William S. Heckscher about study under Erwin Panofsky; photocopy articles and extracts on Panofsky; abstracts of Edgar Wind’s Hamburg dissertation Aesthetischer und Kunstwissenschaftlicher Gegenstand, photocopies of reports by Panofsky and Ernst Cassirer, and of correspondence relating to Edgar Wind's dissertation and exams at Hamburg University, 1922-1924; notes by Margaret Wind and others about Edgar Wind's Hamburg years and Hamburg University; typescript by Elizabeth Sears, 'The Life and Work of William S. Heckscher'. Also includes a publication 'Die Universität Hamburg', n.d. (post 1929). [I, i, v; WIND 2]
- Folder 6: ‘Berlin 1922-4’: Notes by Margaret Wind on Edgar Wind’s part-time clerical work and tutoring while preparing for his ‘Habilitation’; articles and press cuttings, c. 1970s, relating to Berlin in the 1920s, hyperinflation at that time, and 1920s German left-wing intellectuals. [I, 1, vi; WIND 2]
- Folder 7: ‘USA 1924-1927’: Notes by Margaret Wind on Edgar Wind’s first stay in the USA (family connections with the Hon Mrs Ernst Franklin, work as a part-time substitute high school teacher in French and mathematics, friends and colleagues in New York); programmes and reviews relating to the conferences Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1924, and Sixth International Congress of Philosophy, 1926 (for Edgar Wind's contributions see IV (3) Theory of Art versus Aesthetics and (6) Experiment and Metaphysics); extract from a review by Creighton Gilbert, 1984, relating to Edgar Wind’s time in New York and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; photocopy of a letter Edgar Wind to Erwin Panofsky about scholars in America, October 1931, with related later biographical notes; letter to Edgar Wind from Illtyd David, 1960 referring to a summer school organized by Mary Ely on Long Island in 1925, with bibliography of Ely’s publications; correspondence, 1979, between Margaret Wind and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about Edgar Wind’s period there; letter Edgar Wind to Margaret Wind, c. 1949-1950 and various extracts relating to the influence of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce on Edgar Wind. [I, 1, vii; WIND 2]
Dates
- Creation: 1918-1995
Extent
1 box (7 folders)
Language of Materials
- German
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Wind 1
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk