Metadata : Friedrich Ludwig Schardius' Autograph Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Estonia
- Holding institution:
- University of Tartu
- Holding institution (official language):
- Universitas Tartuensis
- Postal address:
- Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090
- Phone number:
- +372 737 5440
- Web address:
- https://www.ut.ee/en
- Email:
- info@ut.ee
- Country:
- Estonia
- Holding institution:
- University of Tartu
- Holding institution (official language):
- Universitas Tartuensis
- Postal address:
- Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090
- Phone number:
- +372 737 5440
- Web address:
- https://www.ut.ee/en
- Email:
- info@ut.ee
- Title:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius' Autograph Collection
- Title (official language):
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardiuse autograafide kollektsioon
- Creator/accumulator:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius
- Date(s):
- 1788/1851
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 3115 autographs, including 20 (33 pages) Jewish-related items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Jewish-related part of the collection consists of twenty handwritten letters, fragments of letters and signatures assembled by Friedrich Ludwig Schardius. The authors of these twenty handwritten pieces are Jews who lived in Germany, Austria, France, Sweden and England in the 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are artists, including writers and poets (Moses Philipson, Isac Reinhold Blom, Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Heinrich Heine); composers and pianists (Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy); journalists and publicists (Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Heinrich Heine, David Fränkel, Carl Ferdinand Philippi), the philologist Gottfried Bernhardy, philosophers (Lazarus Bendavid; Moses Mendelssohn) and philanthropists (Israel Jacobson; Sir Moses Haim Montefiore). The list also includes the mathematician the lawyer and politician Isaac Moise Crémieux, as well as financiers and bankers Baron Amschel Meyer von Rothschild, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Jakob (James) Mayer von Rothschild, Sir Moses Haim Montefiore. The major part of the collection comprises letters (16 records, 1788-1851). Four of these letters are written to other prominent Jews, such as the Austrian and German jurist and novelist Joseph Sonnenfels (from M. Mendelssohn, 1788), the German writer and stage director Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann (from M. Philipson, 1790), the French financier Jacob Emile Pereire (from Isaac Moise Cremieux, 1800), 1803), as well a short greeting letter to Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (from David Fränkel, 1800). Three letters in the collection are written to prominent Germans , namely the philologist Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (from Lazarus Bendavid, 1803), the classical scholar Julius Schubring (from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1833) and the doctor Maximilian Heine (from Heinrich Heine, 1837). Based on these five letters, it is possible to study business and private relations between famous individuals from the end of 18th century to the first half of 19th century. On the other hand, the addressees of five letters in the collection are unknown (1823, 1826, 1827, 1839, 1848). The collection also includes two fragments of letters from Carl Ferdinand Philippi (1800) and Israel Jacobson (1812), as well as a bill signed by Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1846). Most of the autographs are written in German (14 records, 1788-1848). Other autographs are in French (3 records, 1800-1851), English (1 record, 1846) and Swedish (1 record, 1792). The twenty records in question are part of Friedrich Ludwig Schardius’s collection containing 3,115 autographs of famous people dated from 1512 to 1855.
- Archival history:
- The collection of autographs was assembled by Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (1798-1855) and donated to the University of Tartu in 1852. However, the autographs remained with F L Schardius until 1855, according to his will. The University of Tartu received the collection in 1856, after his death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (born 1798 in Roßlau, Anhalt-Dessau, died 1855 in St. Petersburg) was a German archivist, curator and numismatist. He graduated in Philology and Jurisprudence from the University of Leipzig in 1818. In 1823 he started working at the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, first as a librarian's assistant. In 1824/25 he received an honorary doctorate degree. He continued his work as a director’s assistant at the numismatic museum and at the same time as a proofreader of German and Latin academic writings. From 1837 F L Schardius was the private librarian for Russian businessman and banker Ludwig Stieglitz for a number of years. His work at the Academy of Science, as well as the international relations of L. Stieglitz, helped him gather a large collection of autographs by prominent people of that period.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn
- Heine, Heinrich
- Jacobson, Israel
- Mendelssohn, Moses
- Finding aids:
- 3,115 autographs of the F L Schardius collection are available online at dSpace on the website of the University of Tartu. The Jewish-related autographs can be found by browsing the Subject "juudid" (“Jews" in Estonian).
- Links to finding aids:
- http://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/4893/browse?type=subject&value=juudid
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Aviva Katourkina
- Title:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius' Autograph Collection
- Title (official language):
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardiuse autograafide kollektsioon
- Creator/accumulator:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius
- Date(s):
- 1788/1851
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 3115 autographs, including 20 (33 pages) Jewish-related items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Jewish-related part of the collection consists of twenty handwritten letters, fragments of letters and signatures assembled by Friedrich Ludwig Schardius. The authors of these twenty handwritten pieces are Jews who lived in Germany, Austria, France, Sweden and England in the 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are artists, including writers and poets (Moses Philipson, Isac Reinhold Blom, Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Heinrich Heine); composers and pianists (Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy); journalists and publicists (Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Heinrich Heine, David Fränkel, Carl Ferdinand Philippi), the philologist Gottfried Bernhardy, philosophers (Lazarus Bendavid; Moses Mendelssohn) and philanthropists (Israel Jacobson; Sir Moses Haim Montefiore). The list also includes the mathematician the lawyer and politician Isaac Moise Crémieux, as well as financiers and bankers Baron Amschel Meyer von Rothschild, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Jakob (James) Mayer von Rothschild, Sir Moses Haim Montefiore. The major part of the collection comprises letters (16 records, 1788-1851). Four of these letters are written to other prominent Jews, such as the Austrian and German jurist and novelist Joseph Sonnenfels (from M. Mendelssohn, 1788), the German writer and stage director Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann (from M. Philipson, 1790), the French financier Jacob Emile Pereire (from Isaac Moise Cremieux, 1800), 1803), as well a short greeting letter to Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (from David Fränkel, 1800). Three letters in the collection are written to prominent Germans , namely the philologist Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (from Lazarus Bendavid, 1803), the classical scholar Julius Schubring (from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1833) and the doctor Maximilian Heine (from Heinrich Heine, 1837). Based on these five letters, it is possible to study business and private relations between famous individuals from the end of 18th century to the first half of 19th century. On the other hand, the addressees of five letters in the collection are unknown (1823, 1826, 1827, 1839, 1848). The collection also includes two fragments of letters from Carl Ferdinand Philippi (1800) and Israel Jacobson (1812), as well as a bill signed by Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1846). Most of the autographs are written in German (14 records, 1788-1848). Other autographs are in French (3 records, 1800-1851), English (1 record, 1846) and Swedish (1 record, 1792). The twenty records in question are part of Friedrich Ludwig Schardius’s collection containing 3,115 autographs of famous people dated from 1512 to 1855.
- Archival history:
- The collection of autographs was assembled by Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (1798-1855) and donated to the University of Tartu in 1852. However, the autographs remained with F L Schardius until 1855, according to his will. The University of Tartu received the collection in 1856, after his death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Friedrich Ludwig Schardius (born 1798 in Roßlau, Anhalt-Dessau, died 1855 in St. Petersburg) was a German archivist, curator and numismatist. He graduated in Philology and Jurisprudence from the University of Leipzig in 1818. In 1823 he started working at the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, first as a librarian's assistant. In 1824/25 he received an honorary doctorate degree. He continued his work as a director’s assistant at the numismatic museum and at the same time as a proofreader of German and Latin academic writings. From 1837 F L Schardius was the private librarian for Russian businessman and banker Ludwig Stieglitz for a number of years. His work at the Academy of Science, as well as the international relations of L. Stieglitz, helped him gather a large collection of autographs by prominent people of that period.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn
- Heine, Heinrich
- Jacobson, Israel
- Mendelssohn, Moses
- Finding aids:
- 3,115 autographs of the F L Schardius collection are available online at dSpace on the website of the University of Tartu. The Jewish-related autographs can be found by browsing the Subject "juudid" (“Jews" in Estonian).
- Links to finding aids:
- http://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/4893/browse?type=subject&value=juudid
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Aviva Katourkina
