Metadata: Papers of Dr Adolf Buchler or Buechler
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 186 AJ335
- Title:
- Papers of Dr Adolf Buchler or Buechler
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Dr Adolf Buchler or Buechler
- Creator/accumulator:
- Buchler, Adolf
- Date(s):
- 1893/1952
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1.04 linear metres: 9 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: General correspondence, 1893-1952, including correspondence with the Chief Rabbi's Office; correspondence relating to Jews' College, London, 1900-38, including admissions papers, 1920s and 1930s. Research notes, together with notes for lectures and speeches; manuscript of an incomplete book on marriage by Buechler. Other papers including a report of the London Jewish Hospital Ladies Aid Association, 1930-1, a report of the Union of Jewish Women, 1931, and minutes of the Jewish Unity Group, 1942; newspapers articles and photographs, including a series of photographs of a dairy shop and milk transportation in Prague, 1946.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Adolf Buechler (1867-1939) was born in Priekopa, Hungary. He studied at Budapest, Breslau and Leipzig, obtaining a doctorate for a study in Hebrew accents. Buechler moved to England and worked for some time under his uncle, Adolf Neubauer, of the Bodleian Library. He then moved to the newly formed rabbinical seminary at Vienna before returning to England, to Jews' College, London, in 1906.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Buechler, Adolf
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
