Between Jewish Posen and Scholarly Berlin : : The Life and Letters of Philipp Jaffé / / Daniel R. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Daniel R.,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 380 p.)

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, w...

Table of 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
• Introduction
• 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