Metadata: Rosenbaum; Eduard (1887-1979); librarian
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- COLL MISC 0638
- Title:
- Rosenbaum; Eduard (1887-1979); librarian
- Title (official language):
- Rosenbaum; Eduard (1887-1979); librarian
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rosenbaum; Eduard (1887-1979); librarian
- Date(s):
- 1914/1969
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Private correspondence mainly letters from German economists including: Alfred Weber, Professor E.von Beckerath, Georg Bernhard, Professor G. W. J. Bruins, A. J. Da Costa, Fritz Heichelheim, Friedrich Lenz, Professor von Luschan, Karl Mannheim, Otto Pflunderer, Artur Salz, Georg Simmel, Otto Neurath, Arnold Gehlen and Wilhelm Ropke. Also J. M. Keynes and Alexander Grey. 1914 to 1969.Diary kept by Rosenbaum on a visit to Germany to collect books, including those purged by the allied occupation. Also correspondence, 1947.Copy of a manuscript held in the Commerzbibliothek, Hamburg by Johann Ernest Friedrich Westphalen.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Eduard Rosenbaum, 1887-1979, was born in Hamburg into a family of Jewish merchants. He studied economics and law in Munich, Berlin and Strasbourg and took a doctorate at Kiel in 1910. In 1914, he moved to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. In 1917, he was appointed a deputy and in 1919 a member of the governing body. The same year, he became Director of the Commerzbibliothek, the oldest commercial library in the world. In 1934, Rosenbaum left Germany and came to London, where he was appointed to LSE as the first Assistant Librarian in charge of acquisitions. Within a few years, he had helped LSE’s library to become an international library representative of the social sciences.By 1937, it was estimated that the library was growing at a rate of 12,000 items per year. In 1952, Rosenbaum retired from the Library after 17 years, having made an immense and significant contribution to developing the collections through an unprecedentedly difficult period. In retirement, he continued to write, actively support and participate in the work of leading institutions concerned with Jewish affairs, such as the Wiener Library and the Leo Baeck Institute. He died in 1979.
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rosenbaum, Eduard
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Libraries
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=COLL%20MISC%200638
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
