Identity area
Reference code
GB BPASA M-E1
Title
Eissler, Kurt Robert
Date(s)
- c.1975-?1983; one item undated (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
3 items
Context area
Name of creator
(1908-07-02--1999-02-17)
Biographical history
Kurt Eissler was born in Vienna on 2 Jul 1908. He was a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society when the Nazis took power in Austria in 1938, after which he emigrated to Chicago. In 1943 he served in the US army as a Captain in the Medical Corps and following the war he settled in New York. He was known as a Freudian scholar and historian and for his work in founding the Sigmund Freud Archives, which are deposited with the US Library of Congress. He died in New York on 17 Feb 1999.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copies of two typescripts and a letter of complaint to the British Library.x000d
Accruals
System of arrangement
Typescripts, then letter
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Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- German
Script of material
- Latin
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Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Correspondence between Kurt Eissler and Ernest Jones can be found in the Ernest Jones collection (ref. P04-C-B-14).
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Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin