Metadata: Personal estate of Wilhelm Wisser
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Oldenburg branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Oldenburg
- Postal address:
- Damm 43, 26135 Oldenburg
- Phone number:
- +49 441 9244 100
- Reference number:
- Erw 81
- Title:
- Personal estate of Wilhelm Wisser
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Wilhelm Wisser
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wisser, Wilhelm
- Date(s):
- 1855/1935
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1.3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Wisser’s collection of fairy tales and his correspondence comprise the main part of the collection, which is important for Low German fairy-tale research. The collected fairy tales include Walter Anderson: Der Schwank von Kaiser und Abt bei den Minsker Juden (The Anecdote of Emperor and Abbot among the Minsk Jews), Dorpat [Tartu] 1921.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The high school teacher Wilhelm Wisser (1843-1935) collected Low German fairy tales in East Holstein and Oldenburg.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Wisser, Wilhelm
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Historical research
- Literature
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement. The material is in order of accession.
- Finding aids:
- An online catalogue (Arcinsys) is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck