us-006556-2019 011
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-v
has or had some members with language: eng
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1891-01-01
scope and content: The collection consists of two discreet series of records. Series I consists of items created or collected by Georg Bredig, while Series II contains items created or collected by Georg's son, Max. The collection is arranged into the following series:
biographical history: Georg Bredig was born in Glogau, (modern day Poland) in 1868, to a German Jewish family. He began his University education in 1886, first in Freiburg and soon after in Berlin where he studied chemistry and physics. In Berlin, Bredig was first introduced to the , which had been founded that very year by the eminent chemists Wilhelm Ostwald and Jacobus van't Hoff. Bredig was so enthusiastic about this new border science, that he transferred to the University of Leipzig to study physical chemistry directly under Ostwald, whose Institute had become the world's leading center in the field. Bredig excelled in his studies and earned the coveted spot as Ostwald's student assistant. Bredig earned his doctorate"summa cum laud" in 1894, and spent the next 18 months studying physical chemistry with some of the leaders in the field: first in Amsterdam with van't Hoff and afterwards, in Stockholm with Svante Arrhenius, with whom Bredig developed a life-long friendship. After a year and a half of studying abroad, Bredig returned to Leipzig to work as the Assistant to Ostwald. In this role, Bredig produced a series of pioneering works on colloidal metals and their catalytic properties and most notably developed a method for the preparation of colloidal solutions by use of an electric arc. He expanded on this work by studying and comparing the activity of metal colloids and that of inorganic ferments, which he summarized as his habilitation thesis in 1901. These successes led to his appointment as the first professor of physical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. Here, he continued to develop his research from Leipzig and most notably achieved the first catalytic synthesis of asymmetric carbon compounds. In his personal life, Georg married Rosa Frankel in 1901. Together they had two children; a son named Max Albert, born in 1902, and a daughter Marianne, born a year later. In 1910 Bredig moved his family to Switzerland where he had accepted a professorship in the Physical Ch…
archivist note: The collection was processed by Patrick H. Shea between 2019-2020, and was made possible through the generous support of Laurie Landau. Prior to its sale to the Institute, the collection was reorganized and sorted by subject matter, and the original order of the collection was lost. Evidence suggests that the original order of the collection was not grouped by subject, but rather by who had created/collected the item, (i.e. Georg or Max Bredig). The current arrangement scheme was created and imposed by the processing archivist and seeks to mimic the original order by grouping material according to its creator/collector.
type: RecordSet
identifier: 2019.011
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1968-12-31
has or had some members with language: deu
date: Bulk 1894-1944
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-i
record resource extent: 21.0 Linear Feet (30 Boxes and 213 Books)
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-iii
related material: Ernst Berl Papers, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, PA. Ernst Berl Papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Kasimir Fajans Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Svante Arrhenius Papers, American Institute of Physics, New York, NY.
conditions of access: None.
has or had holder: us-006556
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-vi
conditions of use: In most cases, copyright to the manuscript material in the collection is held by the Science History Institute. This includes all manuscript material created by Georg and Max Bredig, but not necessarily the incoming correspondence retained by these individuals. Copyright for any specific item should be determined on an individual basis as the collection contains an assortment of material still under copyright, as well as orphaned works and items in the public domain. The researcher assumes full responsibility for all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-ii
title: The Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
includes or included: us-006556-2019 011-iv
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-006556-2019_011/acquisitions/1
has record set type: Collection