Call Number:

C0445

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.8 linear feet

Language:

German

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Student Notebooks of John Preston Hoskins, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1891-1892 (inclusive)

Creator:

Hoskins, John Preston, 1867-1935

Form:

Lecture notes. and Notebooks.

Abstract:

The Student Notebooks of John Preston Hoskins consists of notebooks of the American educator and German linguist John Preston Hoskins (1867-1935) covering the period that he was a graduate student in Germany. Hoskins later had a lengthy career as a professor of German at Princeton University, teaching from 1895 to 1935.

John Preston Hoskins (Princeton Class of 1891) was a professor of German at Princeton University during a forty-year period from 1895 to 1935.

The collection consists of eighteen notebooks of lecture notes taken by Hoskins (Princeton Class of 1891) on German phonetics, syntax, grammar, and literature (Goethe, Schiller, etc.) while he was a graduate student in Germany (1891-1892).

This collection is currently unprocessed.