Dr Robert Michaelis: working papers for book on the Dreyfus affair
Dr. Robert Michaelis was born in 1903 in Berlin and died in Mainz in 1973. Being of Jewish extraction he emigrated to Shanghai in 1939 becoming president of the organisation of emigrant lawyers. Owing to his knowledge of the Chinese language he was able to work in a legal capacity and wrote articles on the rights of emigrants in Shanghai. He returned to Germany in 1948 where he became Senatpräsident for Mainz. For many years he had been interested in the Dreyfus affair. When he retired in 1957 he devoted much of his time to researching the legal aspects of the case against Dreyfus.
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This collection consists of the working papers of Dr. Robert Michaelis for his two publications on the Dreyfus affair.
The contents of the original files have been re-packaged and arranged (where possible) chronolgically. The new folders have been sorted into the following 3 groups: 1056/1 source material- original; 1056/2 drafts and notes; 1056/3 source material- printed. 1056/1 consists primarily of correspondence between the author, Robert Michaelis, and academics and specialists with an interest in the Dreyfuss affair. 1056/2 consists of drafts of Robert Michaelis' book and (largely illegible) shorthand notes. 1056/3 consists of microfilm printouts and photocopies of published works relating to the Dreyfuss affair.
Nothing is known about the provenance of the material.
3 folders