University of Toronto Archives and Record Management Services Finding Aid – Hermann Boeschenstein fonds Contains the following accessions only: • B1983-0030 • B1984-0014 • B1993-0009 • B2001-0036 For other accessions, please see the descriptions in Discover Archives To navigate to a particular accession, use the bookmarks in the PDF file UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates Series I Personal A. Hermann Boeschenstein /001 (01) Bibliography by Humphrey Milnes (02) List of subscriptions—Boeschenstein festschrift (03) Oral history interview outline by Humphrey Milnes (04) Article—“Professor Boeschenstein űber DDR Literatur” July 1974 (Professor Boeschenstein on East German Literature – not written by Boeschenstein)—Kontakt (05) Article—“Boeschenstein, McGill und die DDR”—Toronto 5 Sept 1974 Courier (response to previous article) (06) Birthday—70th birthday cards from Scarborough School 1970 (German language school) (07) Birthday—70th birthday cards from Weston School (German 1970 language school) (08) Birthday—“Offener brief on Hermann Boeschenstein anlässlich 2 April 1975 seines 75. Geburtstags” (Open letter to Hermann Boeschenstein on the occasion of his 75th birthday)—Toronto Courier (09) Book plate (ink stamping)—“ex libris Hermann / Elizabeth Boeschenstein” (10) Charities—lists 1978, 1980 Correspondence (Universities) (11) University of Colorado—visiting appointment 23 May 1963 (12) University of Chicago—visiting appointment 11 April 1965 (13) McGill University—visiting appointment 10 Dec 1974 (14) McGill University—recommendation by H. Boeschenstein 12 Jan 1977 (15) University of Waterloo—visiting appointment 13 July 1977 (16) Concordia University—Canadian summer school in Kassel, West 1 Nov 1978 Germany (17) University of Toronto—note to pensioners June 1981 Correspondence (General) (18) Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany— 16 Nov 1972 membership in IDDAMU (19) Public Archives of Canada—donation of portion of his papers 9 July 1974 (20) German Research Council 6 June 1975 (21) Luis Bolliger—Theater am Neumarkt, Zűrich 2 Feb 1977 - Page 1 - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates 001 (22) George Whalley—Queen’s University 16 Feb 1977 (23) Sibylle Blicoff(?)—postcard 28 July 1979 (24) Hartmut Froeschle 25.10.1979 to 1.4.1980 1979-1980 (25) Gerhard Glatter—thank you card 28 Oct 1980 (26) Max Himmelheber to Erwin Jaeckle—first global conference on 18 March 1981 the future (27) Public Archives of Canada—first global conference on the future 7 May 1981 (28) Ted Jones—YMCA prisoner of war aid 26 Sept 1981 (29) R. Naegle 27 Oct 1981 (30) L. Kurth 29 Oct 1981 (31) Gruppe 47 at Princeton University (H. Boeschenstein invitee)— April 1966 program (32) Gruppe 47 at Princeton—article in Die Zeit 10 May 1966 (33) Subscriptions—money order receipts (34) Wasserschloss Inzlingen—postage stamp & postage marking B. Elizabeth Boeschenstein (35) Correspondence—Toronto necropolis & Toronto crematorium (36) Death notice Jan 1976 Series II Subject Files (37) Arnold, Armin—curriculum vitae (38) Arnold, Armin—list of publications (39) Bauer, Walter—death notice (40) Bernhard, Thomas—note on Verstőrung (41) Bredel, Willi—notes (42) Britsch, Carl C.—articles on and by him (43) Brod, Max—notes Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (44) Directories 1979 – 1982 (45) Supplements to directories, by-laws, & other information (46) Newsletters (May & October 1980; October 1981) 1980-1981 Canadian Society for German Relief (47) Assistance lists 1947 – 1951 (48) Assistance lists 1947 – 1951 (49) Assistance lists 1947 – 1951 (50) Monthly bulletin Oct 1947 - Page 2 - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates /001 (51) Aid bulletin 1949 (52) Monthly bulletin 1949 – 1952 /002 (01) Quarterly bulletin 1953 (02) The German-Canadian Review Quarterly 1954 (03) Certificate of honour Jan 1952 (04) Chor der Singeleiter, Lűbeck—programs 1954 – 1961 Clubs (05) Concordia Club—centennial issue 1973 (06) German-Canadian Club “Harmonie”—rules 1928(?) (07) German-Canadian Club “Harmonie”—yearbook 1938 (08) German-Canadian Club “Harmonie”—consecration of the flag Oct 1957 (09) German-Canadian Club “Harmonie”—50th anniversary yearbook 1971 (10) Sudeten Germans—7th meeting July 1966 (11) Sudeten Club “Forward”—25th anniversary yearbook Sept 1972 (12) Swiss Club, Toronto—25th anniversary yearbook 1943 (13) Trans-Canada Alliance of German-Canadians (TCA)—summer 1953 festival (14) TCA—10th year publication & speech (to “Harmonie” group?) 1961 (15) TCA—German-Canadian day July 1969 (16) TCA—letter concerning upcoming census 1971(?) (17) TCA—article concerning 20th anniversary, Torontoer Zeitung 9 April 1971 (18) Transylvania Club—opening of new clubhouse 31 March 1973 (19) Congress of Germanists—“Wider Faschismus und Gewalt” Sept 1969 [Against Fascism and violence] (20) East Germany—constitution (21) East Germany—German studies (22) East Germany—notes concerning post war, Christian, & East German literature (23) East Germany—notes concerning bibliographic & photocopied material & East German literature (24) Ebner-Escherbach—note (25) First Lutheran Church, Toronto—history from 1851-1976 (26) First Lutheran Church, Toronto—80th anniversary of building 1978 (27) Flake, Otto—“Leben, werk, gestalt, beispiel” (Life, Work, Character, Example”) by Ernst Mőwe (28) Flake, Otto—notes [for “Observations on Otto Flake”?] (29) Flake, Otto—photocopied article & library information - Page 3 - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates /003 (01) Fontane, Theodor—notes on him & other 19th century German authors (02) Frisch, Max—diary [excerpt] (03) Gaiser, Gerd—notes (04) Gallerie Koller—auction program 1973 (05) German-Canadian Council for the Arts—legal notes (06) German-Canadian Historical Association—flyers (07)++ German-Canadian history— special edition of Der Nordwesten 23 July 1952 marking 200th anniversary of German settlement in Canada (08)++ German-Canadian history—various newspaper articles (09) GKG—yearly reports #37-40 (1969-72) & literary notes 1969 – 1972 (10) Grass, Gűnter—notes on Die Blechtrommel & other literary figures (11) Halbe, Max—Festschrift, dedicatory number of Der Gőttinger Arbeitskreis, & letter concerning the Max Halbe Soceity (12) Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada (HSMUC)— 1976 – 1978 correspondence, newsletters, notices, & print material (13) HSMUC—correspondence with Herbert Kalbfleisch concerning 3 March 1978 Rittinger project (14) HSMUC—German Pioneers of Toronto and Markham 1976 Township (15) Humanity—notes (16) Humanity—notes on the problem of humanity (17) Humanity—notes on the problem of humanity after 1945 (18) International colloquium on questions in research on Robert 27 – 29 May Musil—list of participants & minutes 1973 (19) Jaeggi, Urs—notes Keller, Gottfried (20) Notes [possibly related to H. Boeschenstein’s revised editon of Gottfried Keller] (21) Bibliographic material (22) Bibliographic & photocopied print material (23) Photocopied print material (24) Photocopied print material (25) Photocopied print material (26) Photocopied print material (27) Photocopied material on classical German poetry & Keller (28)++ Articles on Keller in Tages-Anzeiger, Neue Zűrcher Zeitung, & Die Zeit - Page 4 - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates /003 (29) “The Democratic Quality of Gottfried Keller’s Landscapes” by Richard Leister (30) “Die Keller – forschung der jahre 1939 – 1957” [research on Keller, 1939 – 1957] by Wolfgang Preisendanz (31) Kesslerloch—100th anniversary of discoveries there Nov 1974 (32) Marburg Library—lists of periodicals & publications sent 1956(?) (33) Moser, Hans Albrecht—notes (34) Moser, Hans Albrecht—excerpts from Vineta (35) Naturalism—photocopied poems, notes, & articles /004 Nietzsche, Friedrich (01) Notes—on Nietzsche[?] (02) Notes—on Nietzsche & other 19th century writers (03) Notes—on Nietzsche, Kaiser, & Ratheman (04) Selections of his writings & notes (05) Themes and quotations from his writings (06) Aphorisms (07) “Nietzsche’s Image of the Artist and Hauptmann’s Die versunkene glocke” by Richard Jones (08) Obituaries—Walter Steiger & Margrit Wilhelm-Hengel haupt (09) Ontario Goethe Society—correspondence, print material, & 1976 – 1979 advertisements for German language school (10) Pestalozzi, Heinrich—“An mein vaterland” [To My Native Country] (11) Pestalozzi, Heinrich—notes on his writings (12) Pestalozzi, Heinrich—picture postcards [mostly of him] Post World War II German literature (13) Notes (14) Notes (15) Notes (16) Notes (17) Remarque, Erich Maria—pamphlet in honour of his 70th birthday 22 June 1968 (18) Ritter, Frederick—notes (19) Roth, Gerhard—notes (20) Rothe, Wolfgang—curriculum vitae, publication list, & outline of book (edited by him) - Page 5 - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES B1983-0030 Hermann Boeschenstein Personal Records 1924-1984 Access: Open [textual] 3.2 m /Box File Title Dates /004 (21) Rott, Stefan—notes (22) Royal Society of Canada—nomination of Edmund Heier for 4 Nov 1972 election to fellowship (23) Royal Society of Canada—nomination of Henry Kreisel for 12 Nov