Heidelberg

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Main Field ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

This chapter details events following Ernst Kantorowicz's arrival in Heidelberg in late September 1919. On October 3, he had matriculated at the university. As a teenager he had visited the picturesque university town on the Neckar where his sister Soscha was one of a group of committed young intellectuals: Friedrich Gundolf, Arthur Salz, Fine Sobotka, and Erich Kahler. Kantorowicz's main field of studies remained economics. Evidently he was still preparing for a career in the family business, or at least holding that out as an option. However, more indicative of his real interests were his “special subjects”: history of economics, geography, and Arabic philology.

William Bulloch, 1868 - 1941

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 819-852
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Past ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

William Bulloch, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London and Consulting Bacteriologist to the London Hospital since his retirement in 1934, died on n February 1941, in his old hospital, following a small operation for which he had been admitted three days before. By his death a quite unique personality is lost to medicine, and to bacteriology an exponent whose work throughout the past fifty years in many fields, but particularly in the history of his subject, has gained for him wide repute. Bulloch was born on 19 August 1868 in Aberdeen, being the younger son of John Bulloch (1837-1913) and his wife Mary Malcolm (1835-1899) in a family of two sons and two daughters. His brother, John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A., LL.D. (1867-1938), was a well-known journalist and literary critic in London, whose love for his adopted city and its hurry and scurry was equalled only by his passionate devotion to the city of his birth and its ancient university. On the family gravestone he is described as Critic, Poet, Historian, and indeed he was all three, for the main interest of his life outside his profession of literary critic was antiquarian, genealogical and historical research, while in his earlier days he was a facile and clever fashioner of verse and one of the founders of the ever popular Scottish Students’ Song Book .

scholarly journals Robert Alexander Frazer, 1891-1959

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Private Life ◽  
London School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Four Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Robert Alexander Frazer was born in the City of London on 5 February 1891. His father, Robert Watson Frazer, LL.B., had retired from the Madras Civil Service and had become Principal Librarian and Secretary of the London Institution at Finsbury Circus, whence in the following two decades he produced four books on India and its history, of which perhaps the best known was one published in the ‘Story of the Nations’ Series by Fisher Unwin, Ltd., in 1895. The family lived at the Institution and Robert was born there. Young Frazer proceeded in due course to the City of London School where he did remarkably well and won several scholarships and medals. By the time he was eighteen years of age, the City Corporation, desiring to commemorate the distinction just gained by Mr H. H. Asquith, a former pupil of the school, on his appointment as Prime Minister, founded the Asquith Scholarship of £100 per annum tenable for four years at Cambridge. It thus came about that at the school prize-giving in 1909 the Lord Mayor announced that the new Asquith Scholarship had been conferred on Frazer, who was so enabled to proceed to Pembroke College, Cambridge, that autumn. Frazer, in the course of his subsequent career, had two other formal links with London. In 1911 he was admitted to the Freedom of London in the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Crosby, having been an Apprentice of T. M. Wood, ‘Citizen and Gardener of London’; and in 1930 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of London. The former may or may not have been a pointer to his subsequent ability as a gardener in private life; the latter was certainly a well-deserved recognition of his scientific work at the time.

scholarly journals OBITUARY

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-595
Author(s):  
Ian Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Mathematics Department

Daniel Martin B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. was born in Carluke on 16 April 1915, the only child of William and Rose Martin (née Macpherson). The family home in which he was born, Cygnetbank in Clyde Street, had been remodelled and extended by his father, and it was to be Dan's home all his life. His father, who was a carpenter and joiner, had a business based in School Lane, but died as a result of a tragic accident when Dan was only six. Thereafter Dan was brought up single handedly by his mother.After attending primary school in Carluke from 1920 to 1927, Dan entered the High School of Glasgow. It was during his third year there that he started studying calculus on his own. He became so enthused by the subject that he set his sights on a career teaching mathematics, at university if at all possible. On leaving school in 1932, he embarked on the M.A. honours course in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. At that time the Mathematics Department was under the leadership of Professor Thomas MacRobert; the honours course in Mathematics consisted mainly of geometry, calculus and analysis, and the combined honours M.A. with Natural Philosophy was the standard course for mathematicians. A highlight of his first session at university was attending a lecture on the origins of the general theory of relativity, given on 20th June 1933 by Albert Einstein. This was the first of a series of occasional lectures on the history of mathematics funded by the George A. Gibson Foundation which had been set up inmemory of the previous head of the Mathematics Department. From then on, relativity was to be one of Dan's great interests, lasting a lifetime; indeed, on holiday in Iona the year before he died, Dan's choice of holiday reading included three of Einstein's papers.

scholarly journals Stanley Melbourne Bruce - Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, 1883-1967

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The public life of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, a Viscount of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Royal Society, was one of the most paradoxical in the history of his native country. Bruce was born in Melbourne on 15 April 1883, of a well-to-do mercantile family. 1893 saw the collapse of a great land boom, the failure of some banks and an acute general depression. The family business, Paterson, Laing and Bruce, was in difficulties. Stanley Bruce’s father sold his mansion in the fashionable suburb of Toorak. Stanley himself had to leave his preparatory school—the fees were not available. His father, who appears to have been a singularly determined man, then proceeded to restore the fortunes of the business. In 1896 the young Stanley went to the well-known Melbourne Grammar School, where he was a most successful all-round student. It has been given to few boys at a great school to be not only captain of football, of cricket, of athletics, and of rowing, but also Senior Prefect (i.e. Captain) of the School.

Heinrich Kayser, 1853-1940

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
Russian Army ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Mathematics ◽  
Serious Disease ◽  
The University ◽  
East Prussia

A few years before his death, Heinrich Kayser was persuaded by some of his friends to write down his memoirs. He prepared a manuscript of 342 pages which was never published. The present history of his life is based largely on this autobiography. Heinrich Kayser was born at Bingen on the Rhine on 16 March 1853. His great-grandfather, Johann Jacob Kayser, coming from peasant stock in East Prussia, was the first to change to an academic profession. He was parson, land surveyor, and philosopher who applied unsuccessfully for the professorship at the University of Königsberg which was later occupied by Immanuel Kant. Kayser’s grandfather, August Immanuel Kayser, was a prominent lawyer in Königsberg who acquired a large feudal estate (Friedrichsberg). His father, Johann Jacob Heinrich Kayser, was prevented from completing his studies of law by a serious disease of his eyes and took over the estate of his father, spending much of his time travelling all over Europe. Kayser’s mother, Dorothea Amélia von Metz, was the daughter of a Russian army officer, a refugee from the French revolution. The parents were married in Moscow (1843) and after a few years at Königsberg moved to Bingen where Heinrich Kayser was born as the youngest of a family of five. Since the family moved several times, Kayser’s education in his younger years was somewhat irregular. During several years his father gave him instruction in Latin, Greek, mathematics and history. He finished his schooling at the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin in 1872.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Managerial Economics ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
The University

Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University reviews “Secrets of Economics Editors”, by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-four papers, some originally published in the American Economist, present reflections on the practices and experiences of past and present editors of economics journals. Papers focus on economic theory and finance; the history of economics; microeconomics and industrial organization; microeconomics; the methodology of economics; managerial economics; money and banking; urban economics; the economics of public choice; the economics of sports; economic development; the economics of education; general economics; and the journal editorial cycle and practices. Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Ramrattan is Instructor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.”

scholarly journals Santiago Ramon y Cajal, 1852-1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-441 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
University Town ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Ramón Y Cajal

Santiago Ramon y Cajal, foreign member of the Society, died at his home, Madrid, on October 18, 1934, in his 83rd year. Strength of intellect and character had won him, in face of adverse circumstances, high and international position in the world of science. He had become in his own country a very symbol to the people of cultural revival of the nation. He had passed his early childhood in the mountain village of Petilla, where he was native, on the southern Pyreneean slope. His father practised surgery there among the peasants, himself of peasant stock, a doctor’s boy who had later acquired a barber-surgeon licence. Compact of energy and ambition, his father had by dint of grim economies moved later to Zaragoza, the University town. Little Santiago at school showed precocity. When not yet seven he was scribe for the family during an absence of his father in Madrid. But as he grew older the boy proved headstrong, with likes and dislikes intense and passionate. Thus, his love of watching birds on an occasion kept the countryside scouring for him in vain all night, with morning to discover him half up a precipice beside a martin’s nest where he had waited daybreak unable to get farther up or down. His other passion was to sketch : a sheet of paper made his fingers tingle to draw something—anything ; the mule kicking, the hen sitting, the castle on the height, the toper at the inn. Some of this draughtsmanship is extant and published. His father disapproved it ; he feared it might divert his son from medicine. So it was that the boy was packed off to Jaca, to the College of the Aesculapian Fathers. There Latin was a corner-stone of the instruction. Young Santiago, like young Helmholtz, could not learn by simple memorization ; the Latin teaching given required that. The college discipline was severe. Punishment came and grew relentless—the rod, incarceration, and prison-fare. The lad’s reaction became uncompromising rebellion. So was it that he was discharged, thin and sullen, silent about Jaca save for a rhapsody on the beauty of its valley.

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