IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 599c
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Singer, Charles (1876-1960): Correspondence relating to Jewish academics in Nazi Germany (microfilm)
Date(s): 1935-1936
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 165 frames
Name of creator(s): Singer | Charles Joseph | 1876-1960 | historian of medicine and science
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Charles Joseph Singer (MA, DM, D.Litt.,Hon D.Sc., FRCP), born 2 Nov 1876, London; studied University College London, and from 1896-1899 studied zoology at Oxford, graduating BA, BCh.; qualified from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School MRCS LRCP, 1903. He gained other degrees honours during his career: MA MD; FRCP; Honorary DSc. From 1904-1908 Singer held various posts in England and abroad, including Sussex County Hospital; Brighton; Government House, Singapore; Abyssinia (Medical Officer to exhibition); Malta and Salonica, where he trained during the First World War when he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Singer held various posts throughout his career: Registrar to the Cancer Hospital, London; Physician to the Dreadnought Hospital; Lecturer in the history of medicine at University College London, as well as work abroad including Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence documenting the concerns of the distinguished academic, Charles Singer and colleagues, in relation to the restrictions on academic freedom in Nazi Germany and in particular the discrimination against non-Aryan professors during the Heidelberg University Jubilee celebrations, 1935. Correspondents include: J.D. Bernal, P.J. Noel Baker, E.M. Forster, Leonard Woolf, C.M. MacInnes, J.R. Marrack, Bishop of Durham, F.M. Powicke, Sir Josiah Stamp, Leonard G. Montefiore, Alfred Wiener, Ephraim Little, Cyril Bailey, Aldous Huxley.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Mostly English
System of arrangement:
The correspondence was not filmed in any particular order. Copy outgoing correspondence of Charles Singer is mixed in with the incoming letters.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Singer family
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (www.library.wellcome.ac.uk/) Collection No. GB 0120 PP/CJS for further manuscript correspondence of Charles Singer, including material relating to Jewish refugees.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007