Table of Contents
Preface vii
List of Illustrations xii
Abbreviations xiii
I Philipp Jaffé, 1819-1870
Introduction 3
From Posen to Berlin: From Jewish History to German History, and from Historian to Historical Philologist 8
Staying in Berlin and in German History (1850-1854): An Interlude 23
1854-1863: The MGH Years, in Berlin and throughout Europe 29
From Independent Scholarship to Lonely Suicide 42
Berlin professorship and the Bibliotheca 42
On the heights 48
Troubles 57
An embarrassing conflict with Georg Waitz 64
The end 73
Conclusion 81
Addenda 87
II Letters by Philipp Jaffé, 1838-1870
Introduction 91
Abbreviations for sources of the letters 94
Recipients of the letters 95
Appendices
Appendix 1 Police notice of Jaffé's suicide 359
Appendix 2a Jaffé's public statement condemning Pertz 361
Appendix 2b Jaffé's out-of-town distribution list for his statement: Original and transcription 363
Appendix 3 Two references by Georg Waitz, in FDG 10 (1870), to recently deceased colleagues 365
Appendix 4 "The catastrophe of 22 March 1870": Two possibilities 366
Appendix 5 On mistakes and criticism 369
Appendix 6 Facsimile of a letter by Jaffé 372
Select bibliography 373
Index 375
