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Max Freund "Houston Journal" and related editorial papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 325
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The papers of Max Freund, Professor Emeritus of Rice University. The papers relate for the most part to Freund's works, especially Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal, which he edited and translated. Also included are lecture notes on Ireland and Anglo-Irish Literature, a translation of George Moor's "The Wild Goose" as well as translations of other Moore materials, and the published version of his Ph.D. thesis "Die Moralischen Erzaehlungen Marmontels."

Dates

  • 1904 - 1975

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Access restrictions

This material is open for research.

Use restrictions

Permission to publish from the Max Freund papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical Sketch

Dr (Friedrich Ernst) Max Freund was born at Hainichen in the former kingdom of Saxony on February 27, 1879. He received his education and training in Leipzig. In 1903 he was appointed to the chair of the modern languages at Queen's College at Belfast. When World War I began in the summer of 1914 he was assigned to military service in Germany and stationed in the Eastern front. He was professor of modern English at the universities of geissen and Marburg in Germany from 1915-1925. In 1925 he accepted the position of Professor of German and Head of the German department at Rice. Together with his wife, Anna Regina Keck Freund, he founded the Goethe-Vereien and was active in the German-American Societies of Houston. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1933. He retired in 1947 and in his retirement he completed his translation and critical edition of Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal, and had conferred on him the Officer's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany. Dr. Freund died aged 101 on June 16, 1980.

Extent

2.1 Linear Feet ( (3 boxes))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence, photos, newsclippings, proofs, and manuscripts of Max Freund, Professor Emeritus of Rice University. The papers relate for the most part to Freund's works, especially Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal, which he edited and translated. Also included are lecture notes on Ireland and Anglo-Irish Literature, a translation of George Moor's "The Wild Goose" as well as translations of other Moore materials, and the published version of his Ph.D. thesis "Die Moralischen Erzaehlungen Marmontels."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Max Freund and Mrs. Freund, 2/16/65 and February 1981.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Max Freund "Houston Journal" and related editorial papers, 1904-1975
Status
Completed
Date
2010
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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