Briefe - Persönlich [Personal Letters, 1962-1964]

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Series[UMA-SRE-20190020] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF FRITZ LOEWEAccession[1988.0020] Consolidated Papers of Fritz Philipp LoeweIdentifierUMA-ITE-2019002000080Scope and ContentEnvelope (now foldered) containing assorted professional and personal letters, including postcards and greeting cards. The envelope is labelled 1963 but contains letters 1962-1964 and includes drafts and carbon typescript of replies and letters written by Fritz Loewe. Names of some correspondents are illegible and some letters and cards are signed with first names only. Many letters are addressed to Loewe at the Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University.
Topics include: Canterbury Mountaineering Club incident; Greenland Expedition 1963; Fritz Loewe comments on colleagues' research and publications; Views on Jewish orthodoxy; Carl Troll family tree; Obtaining research material; Johannes Georgi's book Mid Ice; Research on the development of atomic bombs in America in World War 11, including sourcing press clippings in the Stockholm Tidningen (newspaper); Isaac B. Singer memoir; Greenland; 50th anniversary of C.G. Abbott receiving honorary degree from University of Melbourne; Subscription to Friends of the Polar Institute; Letter to the Editor re Olympic Games oath; Letter to Susanne (Loewe) re her thesis reports; Letter to the Editor condemning student riot; Olympics wind speed measurement.
Senders / Recipients include: Fritz Loewe; Hias Koglbauer; Anna Stern; Edith Pelteson [?]; B. Brockamp, Institut für Reine und Angewandte Geophysik der Universität Münster; W. Hannah, Honorary Secretary, Canterbury Mountaineering Club; H. Kick; K.J. Ball-Kaduri; Richard Goldthwait, Director, Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University; Lotte Möller; Doris [no last name]; H.D. Smyth, Princeton University; John Levi, Rabbi, Temple Beth Israel; Carl Troll (card); Duncan Stewart (card); James Havens, Earth Sciences Division, US Army Natick Laboratories; Fritz Reiche; Lotte Machol; Eugenie Soderberg; Karl-Heinz Tiedemann, Deutsches Archiv Für Polarforschung; Ebbe Aspegren, Stockholms Tidningen, ST-AB:s TEXTARKIV; M. Wells; [illegible] der Pflug; Uwe Radok, University of Melbourne; Grahame Budd, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney University; Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves; Maja Cadeu [??]; Else Loewe; Paul Ramdohr; Johannes Georgi; Ernst Th. Loeb-Caldenhof; Penelope and Rolf [?] (postcard); Isaac B. Singer; Hermann Peters; Lottie Webb; Matthias Kolgbauer; Curt Schif; Michel Barré (card); Hans Ertel (card); John Milne, Observer-in-charge, APIA Observatory, Western Samoa (card); Hermann Makower; Doris and Max Kahane; F.H. Johnston, Registrar, University of Melbourne; Kathleen Hyde, Scott Polar Research Institute; Martha Stocks; Ing. E. Brüche, Haus der Physik, Mosbach-Baden; Paul [illegible], Rensselar Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; E. Vowinckel.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0020 Unit 0008

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CreatorLoewe, Fritz P.RoleProvenance

Dates

Date10 September 1962-10 May 1964

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Previous System ID2019.0020.00080Finding Aid Reference1988.0020 Unit 54/4

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Language of MaterialEnglish (eng)German (ger)French (fre)

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Briefe - Persönlich [Personal Letters, 1962-1964]