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Moses Hess Papers 1830-1885 International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands hdl:10622/ARCH00568 © IISH Amsterdam 2020 Moses Hess Papers 1830-1885 Table of contents Moses Hess Papers......................................................................................................................... 3 Context............................................................................................................................................... 3 Content and Structure........................................................................................................................3 Access and Use.................................................................................................................................4 Allied Materials...................................................................................................................................5 Inventory.............................................................................................................................................5 I The Printed Writings of Hess.....................................................................................................5 II THE MANUSCRIPTS OF HESS...............................................................................................5 1. DIARIES......................................................................................................................... 5 2. CREATIVE WRITING..................................................................................................... 6 3. TRANSLATIONS.............................................................................................................6 4. PHILOSOPHY................................................................................................................ 6 a. Excerpts...............................................................................................................6 b. Various Philosophical Subjects........................................................................... 7 c. Die heilige Geschichte der Menschheit...............................................................8 d. Vergleichende Genesis....................................................................................... 8 e. Dynamische Stofflehre........................................................................................ 9 5. SCIENCE........................................................................................................................9 a. Excerpts, Notes on Lectures, Drafts of Reviews, Galley proofs..........................9 b. Astronomy......................................................................................................... 10 c. Mathematics, Physics, Natural Science............................................................ 11 6. BIOLOGY......................................................................................................................11 7. ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS....................................................................... 11 8. LITERATURE................................................................................................................11 9. RELIGION AND ETHICS............................................................................................. 12 10. HISTORY....................................................................................................................13 11. POLITICS....................................................................................................................13 a. General..............................................................................................................13 b. Germany............................................................................................................14 c. France................................................................................................................16 12. ECONOMICS..............................................................................................................17 13. SOCIALISM................................................................................................................ 17 14. JUDAISM AND JEWS................................................................................................19 15. VARIA......................................................................................................................... 21 III. CORRESPONDENCE......................................................................................................... 22 1. LETTERS FROM HESS...............................................................................................22 2. LETTERS TO HESS.................................................................................................... 30 3. CORRESPONDENCE OF SYBILLE HESS................................................................. 45 a) Letters from Sybille Hess..................................................................................45 b) Letters to Sybille Hess......................................................................................46 IV DOCUMENTS.......................................................................................................................47 International Institute of Social History 2 Moses Hess Papers 1830-1885 Moses Hess Papers Collection ID ARCH00568 Creator Hess, Moses Period 1830-1885 Extent 0.92 m. Language list English Language of Material German, French Context Biographical Note Born in Bonn 1812, died in Paris 1875; journalist and writer, pioneer for both the socialist movement and the Zionist movement; went to Paris at the end of the 1830s; wrote e.g. for Rheinische Zeitung, Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher, Vorwärts Paris, Rheinische Jahrbücher and closely cooperated with Marx and Engels; chairman of the Deutsche Arbeiterverein and journalist in Paris 1848-1849; had to flee, went first to Switzerland then to Belgium, and returned to Paris in 1853, where he stayed intermittently for the rest of his life; after the coup of Napoleon III in 1851 turned towards the natural sciences; returned to politics during the Italian war in 1859; supported the national movements in 1863; representative of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein in Cologne; extradited from Paris as a Prussian citizen in 1870; criticized Bismarck's policies and soon returned to Paris, where he worked on cosmological studies. Acquisition These papers were originally part of the historical party-archives of the SPD. The IISH acquired this collection from the SPD in exile in 1938 with financial support of the Centrale Arbeiders- Verzekerings- en Deposito-Bank (the Centrale). The collection, including the papers of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, August Bebel, Eduard Bernstein, and Wilhelm Liebknecht, was mentioned in the Annual Report of 1938 (p. 37-42). The contract was signed 19 May 1938. Content and Structure Content Part of his papers: diaries 1835-1836, notes 1851-1854 and other personal documents; financial documents; correspondence with `Amiral' 1871, Bernhard Becker 1864-1865, 1867, Johann Philipp Becker 1862, 1868-1869, Friedrich Engels [1845]-1846, August Hermann Ewerbeck 1848, Sophie von Hatzfeldt 1864-1865, Aleksandr I. Gercen 1849-1851, International Working Men's Association (IWMA), Section Basel 1868-1869, Ferdinand Lassalle 1863-1864, Wilhelm Liebknecht [1869], 1870, 1874, Leopold Löw 1861-1862, Ludwig Philippson 1861-1862, Friedrich August Reckahn 1857-1858, Friedrich Hermann Semmig 1859-1860, 1866-1868, Otto U(h)le, editor of Natur 1856-1859, 1863, Julius Vahlteich, secretary of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein 1863 and others; photocopies of correspondence with Karl Marx 1845-[1847]; literary and non literary manuscripts; excerpts and notes; correspondence by his wife Sybille Hess for the most part from the period 1875-1885 with Johann Philipp Becker [1872], 1875-1878, 1882, 1884, Georg von Vollmar 1880, 1882, 1885 and others. Arrangement International Institute of Social History 3 Moses Hess Papers 1830-1885 The inventory was written by Edmund Silberner and published as: The works of Moses Hess. An inventory of his signed and anonymous publications, manuscripts, and correspondence (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1958). The papers of Hess are mainly preserved in two centers: the IISH and the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem (ZCA). File descriptions in this list with addition 'ZCA' are not available at the IISH and can only be consulted at the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem. Processing Information Inventory made by Edmund Silberner, published in 1958. Revised for purposes of digitization by Eva van Oene in 2015. Subjects Geographic Names Germany France Persons Gercen, Aleksandr Ivanovič Engels, Friedrich Lassalle, Ferdinand Organizations International Working Men's Association (IWMA) Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein Themes Socialist and social democrat parties/Socialist International Communist movements and parties Workers movements/Workers councils/Workers International organizations Material Type Archival material Access and Use Access Not restricted Restrictions on Use For reasons of protection of the original documents, only the scans are available for use. File descriptions with addition 'ZCA' are not availbale at the IISH and can only be consulted at the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem. Other Finding Aid International Institute of Social History 4 Moses Hess Papers 1830-1885 For a detailed description of all the writings of Hess