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Gollancz, Sir Hermann (1852-1930)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5729-5732

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Gollancz, Sir Hermann (1852-1930)

Date(s): 1874-1924

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Gollancz | Sir | Hermann | 1852-1930 | Knight | rabbi and Semitic scholar

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Hermann Gollancz was a rabbi and Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew at University College, London, 1902-1923.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lecture notes and other papers of Sir Hermann Gollancz including notes from lectures on the philosophy of mind, given by George Croom Robertson (1842-1892) at University College, London; notes from lectures at University College, London, comprising lectures on applied mathematics by William Kingdom Clifford (1845-1879), and on physics by George Carey Foster. Also included are notes on the history of the Jews in Sicily; notes on aspects of Jewish religion and theology. Signature inside the front cover, 'H Gollancz, Jews' College' and medical prescriptions written for Sir Hermann Gollancz, and miscellaneous medical ephemera.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Hodgson's 14 May 1931, lot 529.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Jews | Religious groups
Judaism | Ancient religions | Religions
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Psychiatrists x Physicians
Jewish studies
Personnel
Physics
Psychiatry

Personal names
Clifford | William Kingdon | 1845-1879 | mathematician
Foster | George Carey | 1835-1919 | chemist and physicist
Gollancz | Sir | Hermann | 1852-1930 | Knight | rabbi and Semitic scholar
Robertson | George Croom | 1842-1892 | philosopher

Corporate names
University College London

Places
Sicily | Italy | Western Europe | Europe