Between Jewish Posen and scholarly Berlin : the life and letters of Philipp Jaffé / Daniel R. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Daniel R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--History.

Jaffé, Philipp, 1819-1870.

Jaffé, Philipp.

Jaffé, Philipp, 1819-1870--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The life of Philipp Jaffé (1819-1870), from his youth in Posen; his studies with Leopold von Ranke and career - as a close friend of Theodor Mommsen - at the pinnacle of historical scholarship in Berlin, first at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and then, after his feud with Georg Heinrich Pertz, with his unprecedented 1862 appointment, while still a Jew, to a Berlin professorship; and on to his baptism in 1868 and suicide in 1870, was a life of transition between East and West and between Judaism and Christianity - and a life of devotion to scholarship, of loneliness, of success and of frustration. Forgotten today, except by medievalists who depend on his numerous editions of Latin texts, Jaffé was a central figure in the heydays of German scholarship. His career illustrates the working conditions of such scholars, their friendships and feuds, and also the limits that hemmed Jews in and the ways they could be overcome. This volume documents Jaffé's life, accomplishments, and struggles, and also offers insight into his soul via more than two hundred of his letters (in German) - about half to his parents in Posen and half to colleagues around Europe, especially Pertz and Mommsen.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Content

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

I. Philipp Jaffé, 1819-1870

Introduction

I. From Posen to Berlin

II. Staying in Berlin and in German History (1850-1854)

III. 1854-1863

IV. From Independent Scholarship to Lonely Suicide

Conclusion

II. Letters by Philipp Jaffé, 1838-1870

Appendices

Appendix 1. Police Notice of Jaffé's Suicide

Appendix 2a. Jaffé's Public Statement Condemning Pertz

Appendix 2b. Jaffé's Out-of-Town Distribution List for His Public Statement

Appendix 3. Two References by Georg Waitz, in FDG 10 (1870), to Recently Deceased Colleagues

Appendix 4. "The Catastrophe of 22 March 1870": Two Possibilities

Appendix 5. On Mistakes and Criticism

Appendix 6. Facsimile of a Letter by Jaffé

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110484656

311048465X

OCLC:

1002222535