Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin; Vorlesungsverzeichnis, Wintersemester, 1931-1932
Berlin: Preussische Druckerei und Verlags-Aktiensgesellschaft, 1931. 8vo, 168pp, with folding map in rear; original printed wrappers. Chipping to brittle map and toning to last page from acidic map paper; ownership signature on front wrapper; very good. Item #206159
Course catalogue from the university in the final year before its usurpation by the Nazi regime. A tipped-in corregienda slip names the great pacifist theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a lecturer. The faculty at this time boasted numerous Nobel prize winners and great scholars, including (and named in the catalogue) Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, Lise Meitner, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Robert Remak, Erwin Schrödinger, Leo Szilard, and Otto Warburg. Also listed is philosophy professor Eugen Fischer, who was to become rector of the university under the Nazis and a primary theoretician of Nazi eugenics justifying racial genocide.
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