Part 1 (Mss 116): Original Collection, 1888-1956
Physical Description: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The Papers consist primarily of a portion of Alexander Hohlfeld's academic, professional, and personal papers including incoming and outgoing correspondence; clippings; holograph and typescript notes and drafts of papers, articles, and speeches; memo books; address books; miscellaneous personalia; and printed material. They are arranged in four categories: Correspondence, Articles and Speeches, Clippings, and Biographical Memorabilia.

The CORRESPONDENCE, much of it in German, has been arranged alphabetically by author or subject and chronologically within the folders. Much of it concerns appointments for the Carl Schurz Professorship for various years; thus a folder on an individual who was being considered for that position contains correspondence both from the individual himself and from other people concerning him in addition to various non-correspondence items on the same subject. As a result, a number of the folder titles are more subject than author oriented. There is also a folder of general material concerning this professorship (Box 1, folder 8). Other subjects covered in the correspondence concern internal business and disputes within the German Department at the University of Wisconsin; plans for the publishing of Fifty Years with Goethe, a volume of Professor Hohlfeld's essays on Goethe put together by some of his colleagues as a tribute to him; and the death of his son Rudy in the jungles of South America. Also the ill-will and bitterness toward the German-American peoples in this country that was precipitated by the wave of nationalistic anti-German hysteria during World War I is clearly documented in various letters to and from him in both a personal and professional capacity and in clippings of newspaper stories and editorials (Box 3, folders 21-22). In addition, there is much correspondence of a more general personal or professional nature. For a list of major correspondents, see the contents list below.

The ARTICLES AND SPEECHES consist of holograph and typescript notes and manuscripts for articles, speeches, papers, etc. most of which are fragmentary and unidentified, in addition to Hohlfeld's bibliography (Box 5, folder 8) which itself appears to be incomplete; it reveals how poorly the writings preserved here represent the corpus of his work. For a more detailed breakdown of this section, again see the contents list below.

The CLIPPINGS consist of various unsorted English and German language newspaper clippings most of them mentioning Hohlfeld or written by him. Also included in this section are a group of clippings and programs related to the German theater.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORABILIA, in addition to containing miscellaneous items of personal nature including some unsorted notes and papers, also contains the six volumes which are described in detail in the container list.

Series: Correspondence

General

1901 May 27 - 1941 January 19

1943 August 5 - 1956 June 12; undated

Beutler, Ernst, 1940 March 17 - 1956 August 4

Blanknagel, John C., 1949 September 25 - 1953 September 15

Bluhm, Heinz, 1943 June 18 - 1956 January 26

Bruns, Friedrich, 1946 December 28 - 1956 January 26

Caratheodory, Constantin, 1932 January 14 - 1936 June 15

Carl Schurz Professorship - General, 1913 January 8 - 1948 March 9; undated

Driesch, Hans, 1925 April 21 - 1927 February 24; undated

Euphorion, 1953 March 11 - 1956 February 2

Feise, Ernst & Dorothy, 1953 July - 1955 November 9; undated

Freudenberg, Karl, 1925 December 1 - 1931 July 27

Fuerst, Norbert, 1949 October 1 - 1952 August 4

Gausewitz, Walter, 1946 January 18 - 1950 August 28

German Department (University of Wisconsin), 1929 Spring? - 1954 April 5

Gunvaldsen, Kaare M., 1947 September 16 - 1954 May 26

Hagen, Oskar, 1923 June 7 - 1925 February 3

Henel, Heinrich, 1942 June 7 - 1955 November 28

Hohlfeld, Rudolph, 1925 September 8 - 1927 June 8

Jantz, Harold, 1939 April 22 - 1956 April 16

Jeddeloh, Helen Hohlfeld, 1956 April 19 - June 23

Kuhnemann, Eugen, 1911 February 17 - 1916 December 24

Meessen, H.J., 1942 November 7 - 1955 November 9

Milwaukee Seminary Trust, 1947 July 28 - December 10

Morgan, B.Q., 1947 August 8 - 1956 January 28

Naumann, Hans, 1925 June 10 - 1928 December 11

Nordmeyer, H.W., 1943 November 19 - 1955 August 28

Otto, Max, 1943 January 14 - 1955 December 30

Pabst, Ida, 1949 August 7 - 1956 January 11; undated

Philippson, Ernst, 1950 January - 1956 January 1

Price, Lawrence M., 1934 December 7 - 1955 December 12; undated

Purin, Charles M., 1948 May 4 - 1955 December 8; undated

Ranke, Hermann, 1922 March 26 - 1953 May 9

Reese, Hans, 1947 November 12; undated

Rosenberg, Ralph, 1949 September 28 - 1952 April 18

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1921 May 28 - 1923 June 5; undated

Trunz, Erich, 1949 April 12 - December 31

Twaddle, Freeman, 1947 July 8 - October 4; undated

University of Wisconsin Press, 1951 June 5 - 1957 January 18

von der Leyen, Friedrich, 1950 February 4 - 1953 August 4

von Gruenigen, J.P., 1937 March 10 - 1954 January 15

von Schleinitz, Fritz, 1949 November 19 - 1953 June 3; undated

von Weise, Leopold, 1934 February 28 - July 7

Voss-Lessing controversy, 1929 November 14 - 1936 June 19

Whitesell, Fritz, 1952 September 27 - 1953 February 9

World War I

Personal materials-special file, 1914 August 20 - 1919 May 27

“Personal aspects of the War,” 1914 September 24 - 1919 October 5
Note: Expanded file of material from previous folder.

Series: Articles and Speeches

“Buhenbilder and Buhnenanweisungen in Goethe's Faust”

“Faust Am Kaiserhof”

“Zum Iridischen Ausgang von Goethes Faustdichtung”

Reviews - miscellaneous

“Outlines, mss., etc. of matters connected with the War and English-German problems in general”

Miscellaneous notes, outlines, etc.

Series: Clippings

Clippings - general

Programs, clippings, etc. regarding theater in Germany, 1908

Series: Biographical and Memorabilia

Architect's drawings for house

Certificates, Awards, etc.

Deutschamerikamscher Kongress, 1932 October 27-29

Deutsches Haus, Germanische Gesellschaft

Unsorted notes and papers

Miscellaneous printed items, programs

Biographical and Bibliographical materials

Memo Book, 1906-1942
Scope and Content Note: Contents: pp. 1-69, Books Received, 1906 May 18-1938; pp. 70-99, Personliche Briefe II, 1940 January 3-1942 June 5; pp. 100-199, Personliche Briefe, 1922 November 5-1939 December 26; Record of Invitations; Guests from Abroad

Record of Correspondence, 1942 June 5 - 1952 November 5
Note: Also lists former students now teaching German.

Address Books

Book of poetry by Adolf Guntsner
Note: Facsimile? of mss. notebook.

Die Altenglischen Kollektivmisterian, Inaugural Dissertation at University of Leipzig, by Alexander Hohlfeld, 1888
Physical Description: Bound copy 

Part 2 (PH 1171): Additions, circa 1875-1950
Physical Description: 110 photographs (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs of family, friends, associates, academic colleagues, and students of Hohlfeld.