Metadata : Eisler, Robert (1882-1949)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Reference number:
- Robert Eisler
- Title:
- Eisler, Robert (1882-1949)
- Title (official language):
- Eisler, Robert (1882-1949)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Eisler, Robert, 1882-1949, historian of religion
- Date(s):
- 1892/1949
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 55 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Robert Eisler, c 1902-1949, including working papers and correspondence. Topics covered include: 'Das Rätsel des Johannesevangeliums'; The Fourth Gospel; Money; Jesous Basileus ou Basileusas; Slavonic Joseph Manuscript; The Alphabet; Dürer; Conventional Titles and True Meaning; Inscriptions; Zeus Olympios; Orpheus; Moses; Christ Vision; Aesthetics; Mythology; Magic and Science; Vanity of Vanities; Palaeoethnography; Greek Civilization and 'Die Landschaftsmalerei in der antiken Kunst'.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Robert Eisler was born and educated in Vienna, receiving his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1904. He subsequently had a successful academic career in Austria and Germany, including time spent as a visiting lecturer in France, Britain and the United States, until the Anschluss in 1938 when he was interned in Dachau concentration camp. Released shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War he came to England and continued his research at Oxford and later in London, though his time in Dachau left him in poor health for the rest of his life. His research interests included classical archaeology, art history and philosophy, as well as various aspects of the history of religious belief and superstition.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Eisler, Robert
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110030725
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute
- Reference number:
- Robert Eisler
- Title:
- Eisler, Robert (1882-1949)
- Title (official language):
- Eisler, Robert (1882-1949)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Eisler, Robert, 1882-1949, historian of religion
- Date(s):
- 1892/1949
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 55 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Robert Eisler, c 1902-1949, including working papers and correspondence. Topics covered include: 'Das Rätsel des Johannesevangeliums'; The Fourth Gospel; Money; Jesous Basileus ou Basileusas; Slavonic Joseph Manuscript; The Alphabet; Dürer; Conventional Titles and True Meaning; Inscriptions; Zeus Olympios; Orpheus; Moses; Christ Vision; Aesthetics; Mythology; Magic and Science; Vanity of Vanities; Palaeoethnography; Greek Civilization and 'Die Landschaftsmalerei in der antiken Kunst'.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Robert Eisler was born and educated in Vienna, receiving his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1904. He subsequently had a successful academic career in Austria and Germany, including time spent as a visiting lecturer in France, Britain and the United States, until the Anschluss in 1938 when he was interned in Dachau concentration camp. Released shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War he came to England and continued his research at Oxford and later in London, though his time in Dachau left him in poor health for the rest of his life. His research interests included classical archaeology, art history and philosophy, as well as various aspects of the history of religious belief and superstition.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Eisler, Robert
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110030725
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute
