Prof. Dr. Richard Koebner (1885-1958) was a British historian of Jewish-German descent. After being dismissed from university in 1933 he had emigrated to Palestine, where he was appointed professor at the Hebrew University and established its historical institute. In the mid-1950s he moved to England. Together with his wife Gertrud Koebner he published a book on aesthetics in 1957. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 200.
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The correspondence with Richard Koebner (1953-1957) focuses on a potential cooperation of him and The Wiener Library referring specifically to certain research projects and the use of the Library’s material by graduated students from the Hebrew University in this regard. Furthermore, Koebner’s opinion and advice regarding the value of the Library’s eyewitness testimony project is a subject in the letters. The correspondence with Gertrud Koebner (1957-1963) centres on the exchange of books as well as some tasks she completed for The Wiener Library. The latter includes for instance an examination of the personal papers of diarist and Holocaust victim Philipp Manes. Beside letters the correspondence contains a memo by Alfred Wiener on a meeting with Koebner as well as a draft by Wiener of potential research topics.
Correspondence with Koebner, Richard and Gertrud