Call Number:

C0703

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 1.5 linear feet

Language:

German and English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Hanna Fantova Collection of Albert Einstein, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1945-1958 (inclusive)

Creator:

Fantova, Hanna

Form:

Letters -- 20th century., photographs -- 20th century, and Poems -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of Hanna Fantova's collection of Albert Einstein material, as well as some of her own personal papers.

Born in Germany, Albert Einstein was a noted physicist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Hanna Fantova, a former Princeton University librarian, became a close friend of Einstein.

The collection consists of Fantova's collection of Albert Einstein material, as well as some of her own personal papers. Included are 28 letters and 15 poems (all in German) from the late 1940s by Einstein to her; Fantova's "Gespräche mit Einstein" ("Conversations with Einstein") manuscript; and 57 undated (mostly black-and-white) photographs of Einstein, and a few other unidentified people and places, most of which were taken later in life. Also present are photostatic copies of several Einstein manuscripts in German, "Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie" (incomplete), "Die Struktur des Continuum," and miscellaneous fragments and letters; a poem, "Tiger an Hanne" (1945), by Margot Einstein; and correspondence (1957-1958) between Hanna Fantova and Leo Perlman about Einstein's estate.