Arthur Prinz Collection - Dickinson College.

Abstract

This collection consists mainly of notes, research materials, and manuscripts for a book that Arthur Prinz was writing during his time as an economics professor at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book is a translation and further refinement of Prinz’s unpublished dissertation from 1923, which examines the psychological aspects of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. The materials in this collection related to the book include handwritten and typed manuscripts, shorthand notes, clippings, and articles written by others.Also included are several folders of lecture notes, clippings, research materials, and some correspondence.The economics professor Arthur Prinz (1898-1981) was born in Guatemala, educated in Berlin, and emigrated first to Palestine and then to the United States, where he became a professor of economics at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Box inventory in fileFinding aid available online.Believed to have been donated to Dickinson College by Mrs. Arthur Prinz in 1982 , no documentation of the donation of these papers can be found. The folders were presumably arranged around that time in 1982, but it is unclear if the folder arrangement represented any kind of original order from when the materials were first received. The collection was transferred to the Leo Baeck Institute in 2011.See also the Arthur Prinz Collection, AR 5103Processeddigitize