c 1)0 X)eutsct)esi iEiaus of Columella tianitersitp m ti)t Citp of iaeto iorfe 1911' 1912 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/deutscheshausofcOOtonib TnK Dkutsciies IIaus niije D^utscfjesliaus ATA MEETING of the Board of Trustees of Columbia /\ University, held on December 5, 1910, announcement was made of the gift to the University by Mr. Edward D. Adams, then President of the Germanistic Society of America, of a DeutscJies Haus. In accordance with the terms of the gift, the private residence at 419 West 117th Street, within a stone's throw of the Campus, was purchased by the Uni- versity in the spring of 1911, and during the summer ^Intt^ODUCtOt^'P many alterations were made in the house in order to — - — adapt it more directly to the purposes for which it was estab- lished. Professor Kudolf Tombo, Jr., Associate Professor of the Germanic Languages and Literatures of Columbia University and Corresponding Secretary of the Germanistic Society of America, was placed in charge of the Raus as Director, and with the aid of many generous contributions organized a library of contemporary German literature, which was opened in September, 1911. At the same time a bureau of academic information was established, which cooperates with a similar one in the University of Berlin. The Haus also contains private apartments for the Kaiser- Wilhelm Professor and the foreign guests of the Germanistic Society, and serves as the head- quarters of that organization. Efforts are at present being made to raise an endowment fund of one hundred thousand dollars, and it is hoped that the full amount may be donated in the near future. During the short period of its existence the Haus has done much to emphasize and enhance the value of the cordial intel- lectual relations between Germany and the United States. An account of its various activities during the academic year 1911-12 follows: The Haus has been most fortunate in the matter of gifts. In addition to the thirty thousand dollars presented by Mr. Edward D. Adams for the purchase and equipment of the Haus, ten thousand dollars were presented by Mr. George Ehret, dEfiftjs two thousand dollars of which are to be devoted annually for five years to maintenance. Mr. Adolphus Busch of St. Louis has given ten thousand dollars for the endowment fund, and a conditional offer to contribute the last ten thousand dollars of the required one hundred thousand dollars has been made. Furthermore, eleven hundred and ninety-five dollars were con- tributed by Messrs. Fritz Achelis, Herman Behr, A. Filers, A. B. Hepburn, Eudolph Keppler, Willy Meyer, Herman Kidder, Josef Schick, Jacob Schiff, Carl E. Stiefel, Ludwig Vogelstein, Felix Warburg, and Paul Warburg, for the purpose of pur- chasing books for the library of contemporary literature and supplying the necessary magazines and newspapers. Mr. Hugo Eeisinger presented an oil painting of Christ by Arthur Kampf, former president of the Berlin Academy, and a landscape by Ernest Lawson; Mr. Herman Bidder, a portrait of the German Emperor by Mliller-Ury; Euth Payne Burgess, an oil portrait of the late Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Theodor Althoft', painted by herself; Mr. Hermann Struck, an etching of Gerhart Hauptmann; The Gesellig-Wissen- schaftlicher Verein, an oil portrait of Dr. Abraham Jacobi; Mr. Edward D. Adams, a German and an American flag; Mr. Pierpont Adams, pictures of the Great Elector and of Frederick the Great ; Mrs. George A. Victor, a bronze replica of Schliiter's equestrian statue of the Great Elector in Berlin, a bronze bust of Phcebus Apollo with pedestal, and two Kaulbach prints; Mrs. Martin Beckhard, a marble pedestal; The Misses Stett- heimer, a statue of Goethe and one of Schiller. Photographs and i:)ictures were received from Professor and Mrs. Camillo von Klenze, Mr. Kurt J. Eahlson, Professor Josef Schick, The Misses Schurz, Dr. Eeinliard Thom, Mr. Oswald G. Villard, and various German and American universities. Books and maga- zines were presented by the following : Mr. Edward D. Adams, Mr. Martin Birnbaum, Mr. Arthur von Briesen, Dr. J. W. Emmert, Mr. C. von Helmolt, Mr. F. W. Lafrentz, Mr. Kurt J. Eahlson, Mr. Hugo Eeisinger, Mr. Herman Bidder, Mr. Jacob Schiff", The Misses Schurz, Mr. Louis Ullstein, Mr. Louis Vogel- stein, and Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Weber ; also by the following publishing houses: American Book Company, Columbia Uni- versity Press, Ginn & Co., D. C. Heath & Co., Henry Holt & Co., Lemcke & Buechner, Oxford University Press, Silver, Burdett [2] & Co., J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlimg Xachfolger, Egon Fleischel & Co., Ullstein Yerlag, Ernst Wiegandt, Kolnische Zeitung, Leipziger ^N^eueste Xachrichten, Miinclmer Keueste IJJ^acliricliteii, and August Scherl. A circular letter addressed to prominent German men of letters containing a request for biographical material and signed photographs, met with the following favorable responses : Felix Dahn (sent by Mrs. Dahn), Ernst, Ertl, Eulenberg, Ewers Falke, Finckh, Frenssen, Fulda, Greinz, Carl Hauptmann Hawel, Heer, Hegeler, Herzog, Heyse, Jensen (sent by Mrs Jensen), Kroger, Krilger, Thomas Mann, Presber, Eosegger Schlaf, Sohle, Voss, Wilbrandt (sent by his son), and Zahn The portraits, a number of which contain interesting dedica tions, have been suitably framed and now adorn the walls of the library. Photographs have also been secured from Count Johann von Bernstorff, Mr. Edward D. Adams, President Nicholas Murray Butler and Professor John W. Burgess of Columbia University, President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, Professor Eugen Kiihnemann of the University of Breslau, Professor Karl Lamprecht of the University of Leipzig, Ernst von Possart, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California, and the Honorable Andrew D. White, former ambassador to Germany. Through the generosity of Mr. Edward D. Adams the library has come into the possession of a beautiful bookplate, and an album has been presented to the Haus to contain the photographs of the Kaiser- Wilhelm professors. The Haus has also received a gift of a copy of an extra of the Hamburger Fremdeiiblatt, announcing the establishment of peace at the close of the Franco-German War. It would be manifestly impracticable to attempt in the Deutsclies Haus to install a collection of books and magazines covering the entire field of German culture, from the earliest times to the present day — for two reasons: 'SLht JLtbtEW in the first place, the space would prove inadequate, and secondly, it would result in much duplication of material : the Columbia University library possesses over five thousand volumes on German history, as does the Xew York Public Library, while in the field of German literature the former [3] possesses 11,583 volumes and tlie latter 4,840, and in addition there are 10,300 volumes in the Ottendorfer (German) collection at New York University. The library of the Hans, therefore, is confined to material dealing with current literature, the period covered beginning approximately with the restoration of the Empire in 1871. Inasmuch as a Bureau of German- American Eesearch exists at the University of Pennsylvania, no attempt is made to emphasize this special feature here at the expense of our main interest, although the standard works dealing with the German element in the United States are of course available. To attempt to duplicate in any way the work that is being done by the Germanic Museum at Harvard University would also have been unwise and unnecessary. The object of all these undertakings should be effective cooperation, not duplication in the same field. The collection consists of almost fifteen hundred volumes, and is being rapidly augmented. Most of the funds for the purchase of these books have been furnished by the group of gentlemen mentioned in the preceding section. Among the interesting volumes in the possession of the Ham may be men- tioned Gerhart Hauptmann's " Promethidenloos," the first editions of his " Yor Sonnenaufgang," '' Elga," ^' Kaiser Karls Geisel," ''De Waber" (dialect edition), ''Hannele" (illustrated edition), a copy of " Moderne Dichter-Charaktere " (1885), etc. In addition to the works from the field of German literature, there are included (in German translations) works by various non-German authors like Dumas, Maupassant, Zola, Maeterlinck, Ibsen, Bjornson, Strindberg, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenieff, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, and others who have influenced contemporary German writers, and there are also to be found on the shelves a limited number of works on contemporary German art, music, philosophy, history, etc., as weU as gram, mars, dictionaries, and an encyclopedia. The following magazines and newspapers are kept on file in the library, a number of these being supplied by the pub- lishers: Akademische Mitteilungen, College World, Columbia University Quarterly, Educational Revietv, Harvard Graduates Magazine, Hochschul Nachrivhten^ Das Humanistische QymnasiuMy Intercollegiate, Internationale Monatssclirift, MinistermlhlaU fur [4] Medizinalangelegenheiten, Teachers College Record^ Zentralhlatt fur die Gesamte Unterrichtsverivaltung in PreusseUy Zeitschrift fur Hochschulpddagogik, The Bookman^ Buhne und Welt, Current Literature, Daheim, Deutsche Rundschau, Deutsches Schrifttum, Das Echo, EcTcart, Fliegende Blatter, Die Gartenlaube, Grenz- boten, Jugend, Die Kunst, Kunst und Kunstler, Kunst fur Alle, Kunstivart, Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, Das Literarische Echo, Der MerJcer, Die Neue Rundschau, Nord und Sild, Die Schone Literatur, Yelhagen und Klasings Monatshefte, Westermanns Mo- natshefte, Die Woche, Berliner LoMlanzeiger, Frankfurter Zeitung, Kolnische Zeitung, Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten, Munchner Neueste Nachrichten, Neiv- Yorker Staats Zeitung, and Vossische Zeitung. Mention of the reference library of the Bureau of Academic Information will be made in a later paragraph. It is the object of the Director not only to collect the most important books in the field of contemporary German literature and to keep on file a number of German magazines and news- papers, but also to bring together as much fugitive material as possible— for example, valuable magazine articles and news- paper clippings concerning prominent men of letters are being collected and classified, so that an American critic or student who wishes to find out something about a living German writer has access to material that is not available at any other library or university. In other words, the library of the Raus is a repository for material of immediate interest, and it serves as a valuable adjunct to the work conducted by students in the field of contemporary German literature at Columbia University. A large number of clippings have been collected, filed, and cata- logued, and have proved of great service to students of modern Germany, not only at Columbia University but elsewhere. The library catalogue is an analytical one, containing under any given author not only a list of the works by and about him to be found in the library, but also a card for each important reference in any volume located on our shelves. A card for each of our books is also filed in the card catalogue of the gen- eral University library. Eeaders' cards for the use of the library are issued not only to students in the graduate courses at Columbia University, but also to all teachers of German in the universities, colleges, and [5] secondary schools, both public and private, in and near New York, as well as to all persons directly interested in contem- porary German literature. The Bureau of Academic Information, where students may obtain all possible information regarding educational insti- tutions in Germany and the United States, was organized when the Haus was first established. There have been TBUtC^U of numerous written requests for information, largely car553li>nttV ^^ response to a circular letter sent out to the deans ^ q£ ^jjg professional and non-professional graduate jjtTfOttttBtiOtT schools of the leading American universities and to ' a similar letter addressed to the rectors of the Ger- man, Austrian and Swiss universities. In addition numerous inquirers have presented themselves in person at the Haus, and furthermore the Director serves in the caiDacity of advisor to the Kaiser- Wilhelm Professor. Advantage was taken of the presence in April of Professor Wilhelm Paszkowski, Director of the Akademische Auskunftsstelle at the University of Berlin, to refer directly to him several Americans who contem- plated foreign study. A number of interviews of this nature were arranged, greatly to the satisfaction of the students involved. The following items will convey some idea of the nature of the miscellaneous inquiries received : Information regarding the work in journalism conducted at German universities ; lists of persons in New York and vicinity interested in German life and letters; statistics about students of medicine in Germany, about the number of women at German universities, about the geographical distribution of the student body of American universities; German academic costume; bibliographical material about contemporary German authors ; cost of living in various German university towns, etc., etc. Efforts were also made to interest American university circles in the activities of the Gesellschaft fur Hochschul-PddagogiTc. In connection with the Bureau of Academic Information, there is also maintained a reference library, now numbering over six hundred volumes dealing with higher education in Germany and the United States. Announcements and other publications of the German and leading American universities and technical schools are also kept on file for reference. [6] Portrait of Emperor William II. By MiJLLER-URY Presented by Herman Ridder Office of the Director A Corner of the Library Bureau of Academic Information Periodical and Newspaper Room Portrait of Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Theodor Althofk 1839-1908 By Ruth Payne Burgess Presented by the Artist A considerable number of catalogues and other printed material published by various American institutions were secured for the new Bureau of Academic Information established at the University of Leipzig in 1911. On May 31 and June 1, 1912, the Director attended a convention in Berlin of representatives of similar bureaus located at Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna and Paris, as well as of representatives of the Amerika Institut and the Bureau of German Libraries, at which the various activities of these bureaus were discussed and arrange- ments made for more thorough cooperation between the different countries in the field of academic information. The Beutsches Haus, while anxious to be of assistance to Germans in search of employment, can not, of course, serve as an employment agency. We h ave received a multitude of requests to supply posi- 9ipp0lUtntCtTt TSUttdU tions of various kinds, and we have been of some service in a limited way in a special field, that is, we have secured several teaching (Kormal College, Wesleyan University, Yale University) and tutoring positions, and have provided opportunities for translating and lecturing. We have arranged to cooperate hereafter along these lines with the Appointment Committee of Columbia University and shall endeavor to keep constantly in touch with institutions of learning by means of circular letters of inquiry. In addition to the lectures arranged annually by the Ger- manistic Society of America, arrangements were made to have the Kaiser-Wilhelm Professor deliver a series of lectures in the German language at Columbia IBUbllC HtCtUt^^jS University on Wednesday evenings in November and December. It is the intention to have such a series deliv- ered annually. Last season's lectures were delivered by Josef Schick, Ph.D., professor of English philology in the University of Munich, Kaiser-Wilhelm Professor 1911-12, and they attracted large and appreciative audiences. Professor Schick spoke on " Shaksperes Tragodien,'' discussing the following subjects : 1911 IS'ovember 8 — Titus Andronicus und Borneo und Julie November 15 — Die Bonner- Tragodien [7] November 22 — Hamlet^ I November 29 — Hamlet^ II December 6 — Othello und Konig Lear December 13 — Macbeth Beginning November 13, 1912, Felix Krueger, Ph.D., pro- fessor of philosophy and psychology in the University of Halle, Kaiser- Wilhelm Professor 1912-13, will deliver a series of lec- tures on " Die Frau im Leben der Naturvolker." Eloquent testimony of the interest taken in the Beutsches Haus, not only in the United States but abroad, is furnished by the entries in the visitors' register. In addition to l^iSiitOt^)^ Professor Josef Schick of the University of Munich, Professor Wilhelm Paszkowski of the University of Berlin, Professor Felix Krueger of the University of Halle, and Professor Camillo von Klenze of Brown University, all of whom resided in the Hans for a considerable period, we have welcomed a host of visitors from all sections of Germany, as well as from Australia, Belgium, England, France and the Scandinavian countries, among whom the following may be mentioned: Count Johann von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador. From Berlin — Dr. F. S. Archenhold, Treptow Observatory ; Dr. Wil- helm Franke, Prussian exchange teacher ; Lieut. Hans Gericke, aeronaut; Dr. Johannes Kopke, Prussian exchange teacher; Paul Schwenke, Director of the Eoyal Library; Hermann Struck ; Sanitatsrat Dr. Struh ; Dr. Reinhard Thom, Prussian exchange teacher; Louis Ullstein, publisher. From Munich — Count von Podewils-Durniz; Oberburgermeister Dr. von Borscht; Dr. Oskar von Miller; Professor Dr. Walther von Dyck; Dr. Franz Fuchs ; Phil. Gelius ; Diplom. Ing. Fr. Orth ; Professor Erich von Drygalski ; Major z. D. Wilhelm Steinitzer. Pro- fessor Eugen Klihnemann of the University of Breslau; Profes- sor Paul Hensel of the University of Erlangen; Gymnasial- direktor Meese of Essen; Professor Otfried Nippold of Frankfurt a/M. ; Dr. Gunther Jacoby of the University of Greif swald ; Professor Dr. B. Pfeif er of the University of Halle ; Dr. Alfred Harnack of Leipzig ; Dr. Friedrich Schonemann of Marburg ; Rudolf Herzog of Rheinbreitbach ; Dr. K. Thurg of Wiesbaden ; Ludwig Freiherr von Heyl zu Herrnsheim of Worms; Emil Fuchs of London; Baron d'Estournelles de Constant and Vidal [8] de la Blache of Paris ; Jules Dapsens of Brussels ; Professor Dr. A. Watzinger of Trondhjem, Norway, and Christian Leden of Christiania ; besides numerous others from Dresden, Dussel- dorf, Freiburg i/Br., Hamburg, Mlihlheim a/E., etc., etc. In addition there have been numerous visitors at the Haus from all parts of the United States, including instructors in German at Adelphi, Brown, Bryn Mawr, College of the City of Xew York, Harvard, Lafayette, Normal College, Princeton, Vassar, Wesleyan, Williams, Wisconsin, Yale, and at various high schools. The Haus has been of considerable service to German visitors in supplying them with letters of introduction to various institutions, such as universi- ties, colleges, observatories, libraries, LCtt^rjl Of 9!^tt^^^W^t(0tT museums, hospitals, medical insti- tutes, engineering societies, etc., throughout the country, and in a number of instances the itineraries of trips undertaken by German scholars and students were prepared here. Letters of introduction have also been supplied to Americans going abroad for study or research. The Haus lends itself admirably to small social functions. During the year under consideration Professor and Mrs. Josef Schick tendered a reception to their friends on December 19, 1911, and on March 19, 1912, the ^OCt^l if UtTCtfOtTjS Germanistic Society of America gave a recep- tion to Professor Wilhelm Paszkowski of the University of Berlin and Mrs. Paszkowski. On May 8, 1912, Count Johann von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador, was entertained at an informal tea by the Directors of the Germanistic Society of America. A meeting of the Germanic Club of Columbia University was held at the Haus in April. The Haus is serving as the headquarters of the Germanistic Society of America. The Board of Directors hold their meet- ings in the Haus and an office has been provided on the library floor for the curator (0Ct1tl^ntj3tiC ^OCf tt]? of the Germanistic Society collection. The various tickets and other notices distributed by the correspond- ing secretary of the Society are also sent out from the Haus, [9] Various articles on the Beiitsches Haus and its activities have been published in newspapers and magazines here and abroad. Among these may be mentioned an illus- |&t^0)S)3 JlJOtlCCjS trated article by Dr. Eeinhard Thom, Prussian exchange teacher, in Die Woclie^ Heft 8, February 24, 1912 ; one by Dr.Wilhelm Franke, Prussian exchange teacher, in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, June 16, 1912 ; an illustrated article in the North German Lloyd Bulletin for June, 1912, and one entitled " Ein Hort deutscher Wissenschaft und Kultur " in the AbendUatt der New-YorJcer Staats-Zeittmg, August 16, 1912. Articles and notices have also appeared in the Rundschau Zweier Welten, April, 1911; the Columbia Alumni News, May 18, 1911; The Outlooh, January 7, 1911; Die loic a Reform ; The Evening Sun ; Neic York Evening Post ; Neiv Yorlcer Revue ; New- YorJcer Staats-Zeitung ; Yonngstmvn Rundschau; Heimat und Weltj (Danzig) ; Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten ; Tdgliche Rundschau and Vossische Zeitung (Berlin); Frankfurter Zeitung, etc. [10 DIEECTOEY— DEUTSCHES HAUS 1st Floor — Front Foyer Rear Kitchen, Laundry, Etc. 2d Floor — Front Office of the Director, Dr. Rudolf Tombo, Jr. Center Bureau of Academic Information Rear Office of the Secretary, Miss Alpers 3d Floor— Entire Library of Contemporary German Literature Extension Office of Dr. Ernst Richard 4th Floor — Entire Apartments of the Kaiser -Wilhelm Pro- fessor 5th Floor — Front Caretaker Rear Quarters of the Kaiser -Wilhelm Professor The Library of Contemporary German Literature is open from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. daily, excluding Sunday, and on Tuesday and Friday evenings The Bureau of Academic Information is open every week day from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., with the exception of Saturday, when it is open from 9 A.M. to 1 p.m. [11] EOEM OF BEQUEST To the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorlc I hereby give and bequeatli tlie sum of $ , to be used by said Trustees for the maintenance of the JDeutsches Haus of Columbia University. 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