Lienhard Bergel papers, 1928-1995, 1928-1995

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Barzun, Jacques


Box 1 Croce, Benedetto To Lienhard Bergel, 1866-1952


Box 1 Croce, Elena To Lienhard Bergel, 1915-


Box 1 Fowlie, Wallace To Lienhard Bergel


Box 1 Mann, Thomas To Lienhard Bergel, 1875-1955


Box 1 Quasimodo, Salvatore To Lienhard Bergel, 1901-1968


Box 1 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. To Lienhard Bergel


Box 1 Wellek, Rene , To Lienhard Bergel

II. Cataloged Manuscripts


Box 1 Bergel, Lienhard, 1905-1987

III. Cataloged Photographs


Box 1 Bergel, Lienhard


Box 1 Croce, Benedetto


Box 1 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

IV. Arranged Correspondence


Box 1 Bergel , Lienhard To Croce, (photocopies)


Box 1 Bergel , Lienhard To Quasimodo


Box 1 Bergel , Lienhard To various correspondents


Box 1 Letters to Bergel, 1931-1985


Box 1 Postcards to Bergel

V. Arranged Manuscripts


Box 1 Bergel-Hauptmann case


Box 1 Course material


Box 1 Testimonial



Box 2 Bergel manuscripts



Box 3 Bergel manuscripts, and 3 manuscripts, in German, by others


Box 3 Bergel's passport


Box 3 Miscellaneous photographs


Box 3 Miscellaneous printed material and a copy of W.H. Auden's The Enchaged Flood

VI. Memorabilia

In the Vault



Box 4 1. Gold Benedetto Croce centennial medal in presentation case


Box 4 2. Mother-of-pearl barrel-shaped case with hinged top and bottom. 2.5 inches.


Box 4 3. Rectangular bowl with stem and base, leaf pattern on lip. 2 ¼ x 2 x 2 ¼ inches.


Box 4 4 Small base metal bucket, with handle and chain. 4 inches high.


Box 4 5 Small base metal bowl on three legs. 2 inches diameter.


Box 4 6. Clay figure of a goat at rest.

VII. Sylvia Bergel Papers

The correspondence in this series was originally in chronological order but has been arranged by correspondent. Duplicates of correspondence and newspaper clippings were removed.


7.1 Correspondence



Box 5 Correspondence , 1905-1987


Box 5 Bergel, Lienhard Letters to the Editor, 1985


Box 5 Bloustein, Edward, 1925-1989 and Rutgers University, 1985-1989


Box 5 Greenberg, Michael, 1987-1992


Box 5 Horn, Daniel, 1985


Box 5 McCormick, Richard, 1916-, 1987-1988


Box 5 Oshinsky, David, 1944-, 1985-1993


Box 5 Parisi, Peter, 1941-, 1985-1989


Box 5 Silver, Alan, 1914-1988, 1985-1989



Box 6 Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1985


Box 6 Zenchelsky, Seymour, 1987-1995


Box 6 Letters to the Editor, 1985-1995


Box 6 Various correspondence A-B


Box 6 Various correspondence C


Box 6 Various correspondence D-M


Box 6 Various correspondence N-Z


Box 6 Index to correspondence, 1985-1987


7.2 Writings by Others


Box 6 Greenberg, Michael and Zenchelsky, Seymour "Anti-Semitism at Rutgers: the 1920s and 30s", 1993


Box 6 Greenberg, Michael and Zenchelsky, Seymour "The Confrontation with Nazism at Rutgers: Academic Bureaucracy and Moral Failure", 1990


Box 6 Oshinsky, David "Report on the Bergel-Hauptmann Case", 1986


Box 6 American Civil Liberties Union "Reports of Investigators…on Trustees' Investigation into Dismissal of Lienhard Bergel from the German Department at the New Jersey College for Women", August 1935


Box 6 Amercian Association of University Professors "Report on the Bergel Matter", February 1987



Box 7 Special Trustees' Committee Report. "In the Matter of the Investigation of the Charges of Lienhard Bergel", August 1935

[Copied 1985]


Box 7 Bergel, Sylvia Research notes, Compiled 1985


Box 7 Bergel, Syvlia Notes and drafts of correspondence, 1988


Box 7 Bergel, Sylvia Bibliography of Lienhard Bergel's publications, 1989


7.3 Subject/Topical Files


7.3.1 Bergel-Hauptmann case


Box 7 Letters of Hauptmann, Clothier and Corwin 1940-1941, Photocopied 1985


7.3.2. German Academy


Box 7 Translation by Sylvia Bergel, 1985


7.3.3. FBI


Box 7 FBI file on Johannes Hauptmann, Photocopied 1986


7.4 Documents


Box 7 Faculty Questionnaire filled in by Lienhard Bergel, 1967, Photocopy,


Box 7 Lienhard Bergel's teaching certificates, 1930


7.5 Photographs


Box 7 Alan Silver Alan Silver's dog, 1989


7.6 Printed Material


Box 7 Biographies photocopied from various sources


Box 7 Newspaper clippings, 1933-1992