Metadata: Adolphe Nysenholc papers
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Postal address:
- Campus du Solbosch AX1.222, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 / Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 02/650.35.66
- Email:
- archives@ulb.ac.be
- Reference number:
- ArUnLib-Brussels-118PP
- Title:
- Adolphe Nysenholc papers
- Title (official language):
- Papiers Adolphe Nysenholc
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nysenholc, Adolphe
- Date(s):
- 1984/1991
- Language:
- French
- Italian
- Extent:
- 1 binder
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains press cuttings (copies and originals), correspondence (copies and originals), programs and posters of conferences to which Adolphe Nysenholc was invited as a speaker, invitations, scholarly articles written by Nysenholc, scientific files (i.a. on cinema) and an autobiography by A. Nysenholc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Adolphe Nysenholc was born in Brussels in 1938. His parents, originating from Poland, were arrested, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Adolphe Nysenholc was hidden during the war and placed in various orphanages of the AIVG after the Liberation. Having obtained a degree in Romance philology in 1966, he taught French at the Athénée Fernand Blum. In 1975, he defended his (unpublished) PhD thesis on the great artist Charles Chaplin and cinema. Nysenholc lectured in film analysis and film aesthetics at the ULB. He was the organiser of several scientific congresses and published many works, such as novels, essays, plays and memoirs. (Papiers Adolphe Nysenholc (BE / Archives de l’ULB / 118PP))
- Access points: persons/families:
- Nysenholc, Adolphe
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
