Bibliography

Welcome! This is my current working bibliography for primary sources and secondary literature about Elisabeth Blochmann. The purpose of this document is both to share these resources with the wider world and to help me structure the material into a coherent narrative. Most of these sources are quite niche (and often lost) so I feel it is also important to provide more context. As a result, this is a fairly heavily annotated bibliography–most sources have a several pages of annotations, discussion, and analysis. If you would prefer a normal bibliography, I have created a public folder on Paperpile with all of my readings: https://paperpile.com/shared/wx7wwD. If you would like to access particular material or have any recommendations, please e-mail me at clr.mcld@gmail.com or claire.macleod@theology.ox.ac.uk

Archives and Primary Sources

This project uses primary material from archives in Germany and in the United Kingdom. There is a considerable corpus of German scholarship on Blochmann which has made use of the unpublished material in Germany but the sources in Oxford have remained extant. The archives in Oxford offer the most significant contribution to our knowledge of her life and this study presents previously unpublished correspondence from Elisabeth Blochmann and her contemporaries.

Oxford

University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Taylor Institution Library, Fiedler Archive

Blochmann, Elisabeth. “[Offprints],” n.d. University of Oxford. Taylorean Library Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries. Oxford, UK.

Blochmann, Elisabeth. “‘Correspondence’, Fiedler Archive MS 80 G56.” Fiedler Archive, n.d. University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. Taylorean Institute Library. Oxford.

Lady Margaret Hall College Special Collections Archive

Blochmann, Elisabeth. ‘Correspondence and Administrative Files Related to Elisabeth Blochmann’. Lady Margaret Hall Special Collections, 1934-1952. Lady Margaret Hall College. Lady Margaret Hall Special Collections. Oxford, UK.

Deneke, Helena. ‘MPP 3 A 1/4 “Women”s Institutes 1920-1959’ [Vol. 4] C. 1959-1960’. The Papers of Helena and Margaret Deneke, 1920-1959. Lady Margaret Hall College. Lady Margaret Hall Special Collections. Oxford.

Deneke, Helene. ‘My Successor’. In MPP 3 A 1/4 ‘Women’s Institutes 1920-1959’ [Vol. 4] C. 1959-1960, edited by Helene Deneke, 266–73, 1959.

p. 269 - At the village church the preaching pastor was inhibited by the organists, a sworn Nazi, prepared to spy and report. In the village lived the well-known writer Hans Grimm, who convinced Professor Nohl that he was anti-Nazi at heart and yet kept in with them sufficiently to be allowed freedom. My pupil, Farwell {Oriel, Oxford} (was staying with him to talk English, and he drew me into the problem of helping Grimm translate a heavy verbose lecture of his into English, which he meant to give somewhere in England. Grimm was obstinately insistent on keeping ever shade of every parenthesis in his involved sentences and would not believe that a literal translation would not be understood. I remember my struggles and remember his kindness in presenting me with his book “Volk Ohne Raum”. I never heard what happened to that impossible lecture on the greatness of the German spirit. I did not fall for Hans Grimm, but he had a very nice wife, a well-born lady whom he treated with dis-respect while she slaved for him. Professor Nohl managed to arrange for her to show me over a neighbouring town and between us we managed a days’ holiday for her.

Lea, K. M. ‘Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972)’. The Brown Book, December 1972, 42–43.

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library Special Collections, Weston Library

Archive of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning

‘“Elisabeth Blochmann”, Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. S.P.S.L. 241/1-7’. Catalogue of the Archive of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, 1933-87, n.d. Weston Library. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries.

Higginson, J. H. “The Contribution of Sir Michael Sadler to the Study of Comparative Education’, by J.H. Higginson, Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Leeds.” PhD, University of Leeds, 1954

“Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Dep. D. 764.” Papers Relating to the Education of Women at Oxford University, 1928-1942. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk//repositories/2/archival_objects/266555

“Oxford Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. 7116.” Copies of Lectures and Talks, Correspondence and Printed Works of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1911-1915. Weston LIbraries. Oxford Bodleian Libraries. Oxford, UK. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk//repositories/2/archival_objects/53486

“Oxford Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. C. 7117.” Copies of Lectures and Talks, Correspondence and Printed Works of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1916-1935, n.d. Weston Library. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. Oxford, UK. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk//repositories/2/archival_objects/53487

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Dep. c. 687, fols. 1-. “Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Dep. C. 687, Fols. 1-2.” Papers Relating to the Education of Women at Oxford University, 1906-1979. Weston Library. Oxford, Bodleian LIbraries. Oxford, UK. https://requests.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/remoteauth/aeon.dll?&Action=10&Form=63&Value=52285#:~:text=https%3A//archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk//repositories/2/archival_objects/266556

“Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. C. 7118.” Copies of Lectures and Talks, Correspondence and Printed Works of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1901-1961. Weston Library. Oxford Bodleian Libraries. Oxford, UK. https://requests.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/remoteauth/aeon.dll?&Action=10&Form=63&Value=52281#:~:text=https%3A//archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk//repositories/2/archival_objects/53488

Germany

The Deutsche Archiv states that Blochmann’s estate is held at two major archives. If only if it were that simple. In truth, her affects are spread throughout a number of archives that funnel into either the BFO or the Ida Diligen Archive. Yet, her letters and correspondence are also held in the Heidegger Estate at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Martin Heidegger Estate)

Blochmann, Elisabeth. Review of Gertrud Bäumer im Licht ihrer Erinnerung. [Zu Bäumer, Im Licht der Erinnerung.] : [Rezension], by Gertrud Baumer. Zeitschrift Für Kultur Und Erziehung, 1953. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/AK00506054.

———. “‘Pessimistischer Humanismus?’ : [Über Thomas Mann U. Arthur Schopenhauer].” Erschienen in: Die Sammlung : Zeitschrift Für Kultur Und Erziehung. 3 (1948): 577–83. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/AK00586351.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, and Hands Grimms. “Grimm, Hans an Blochmann, Elisabeth [Briefe] / Grimm, Hans [Verfasser/in]; Blochmann, Elisabeth [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Grimm, Hans/England HS001321431, 1937-1938. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00132143.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, and Elfride Heidegger. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Elfride [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Elfride [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1, HS00616836 , April 17, 1955. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616836.

———. “Heidegger, Elfride an Blochmann, Elisabeth [Briefe] / Heidegger, Elfride [Verfasser/in]; Blochmann, Elisabeth [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1, HS00710888 , December 1, 1946. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00710888.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, and Martin Heidegger. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00616846, 1969-1970. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616846.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00616845, 1954-1960. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616845.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00606424, 1933. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616832.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1, HS00032190, July 4, 1947. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00032190.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00606424, September 24, 1950. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00606424.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Heidegger, Martin [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Heidegger, Martin [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00616840, April 25, 1962. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616840.

———. “Blochmann, Elisabeth: Notizen zu Martin Heidegger: ‘Vom Wesen der Wahrheit’ [Verschiedenes] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Heidegger, Martin 1 HS00616830, September 24, 1950. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00616830.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, Martin Heidegger, Elfride Heidegger, Hans Grimm, Helga Hummerich, and Rudolph Alexander Schröeder. “Elisabeth Blochmann Correspondence.” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman, n.d. Scholars, philosophers, Germanists. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, and Helga Hummerich. “Blochmann, E. an Hummerich, Helga [Briefe] / Blochmann, E. [Verfasser/in]; Hummerich, Helga [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Reifenberg, Benno/Die Gegenwart , HS01011830 , May 11, 1957. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS01011830.

Blochmann, Elisabeth, and Rudolf Alexander Schröder. “Blochmann, Elisabeth an Schröder, Rudolf Alexander [Briefe] / Blochmann, Elisabeth [Verfasser/in]; Schröder, Rudolf Alexander [Adressat/in].” Translated by Isabelle Heinneman. A:Schröder, Rudolf Alexander , HS00107202, 1937 - 1938. Deutsche Literaturarchiv. Marbach-am-Neckar. https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/HS00107202.

Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung (BBF)

In stock mainly contains personal documents such as e.g. E.g. appointment documents, the awarding of the Goethe plaque and laudations for the 70th birthday. The private correspondence, which mainly consists of letters from and to her sister Annemarie Blochmann and two of her former students from Halle, makes up the largest part of the holdings. The documents were submitted to the archive in two partial deliveries (1997 and 2017). Further documents come from the estate of Wolfgang Klafki (2017). Indexing was carried out according to the RNA (rules for the indexing of estates and autographs) in the archive database. additional archive material:

• Partial estate of Elisabeth Blochmann, Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen

• An weniger: Cod. MS. E. Less 1: 71A

• Hermann Nohl estate, Lower Saxony state and university library in Göttingen (PDF)

• Signature: Cod. Ms. H. Nohl 29: 1 – 2 Frankenberger an Nohl: Signatur Cod. Ms. H. Nohl 138

• Geißler to Nohl: Signatory: Cod. Ms. H. Nohl 155

• Georg Misch estate, Lower Saxony state and university library in Göttingen

• Gustav Radbruch estate, Heidelberg University library

• Eduard Spranger estate, federal archive Koblenz

• Wilhelm Flitner estate, Tübingen University Library

Sources:

DIPF/BBF/Archive: BLO 1, personal papers.

Klafki, Wolfgang; Müller, Helmut-Gerhard: Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972). Extended catalog for the exhibition. The first female professor of education at the Philipps University. Marburg 1992.

The Ida Seele Archive (Dilingen)

Archive Catalogues and Reference Lists

“„Blochmann, Elisabeth Friederike Emma“.” Hessische Biografie, 2022. 118663976. Hessisches Institut für Landesgeschichte. https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/118663976

6124b, Unia Marburg Fonds 310. “Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Blochmann.” 310 Kurator, Verwaltungsdirektor, Kanzler, UniA Marburg Fonds 310 No 6124b. Archives in Hessen. Archiv der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Marburg. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction?detailid=v7470205

Blochmann, Elisabeth. “Nachlass Elisabeth Blochmann.” Cod. Ms. E. Blochmann DE-611-BF-61444,. Niedersächsisches Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Accessed June 21, 2023. https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-BF-61444

“Blochmann, Elisabeth (1892-1972).” Bundesarchiv. Accessed January 6, 2023. https://www.bundesarchiv.de/nachlassdatenbank/viewall.php?page=35&category=B&sid=580b60606393b82ae4e4e

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. “Elisabeth Blochmann (Bestand).” BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung - Archiv, BLO. BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung - Archiv, BLO. Accessed June 21, 2023. https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/5BBW6NDHAXTWHSSBKHM773BZM3M34SNH?lang=de

“Elisabeth Blochmann.” Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Accessed June 20, 2023. https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=%22blochmann%22+and+%22elisabeth%22%26any&currentPosition=28

“Elisabeth Blochmann : (1892 - 1972).” Universität, 1992. https://www.meta-katalog.eu/Record/13064addf

“Elisabeth Blochmann (Bestand).” BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung - Archiv, BLO. Accessed January 6, 2023. https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/5BBW6NDHAXTWHSSBKHM773BZM3M34SNH

“‘Elisabeth Blochmann’, Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. S.P.S.L. 241/1-7.” Catalogue of the Archive of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, 1933-87, n.d. Weston Library. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/73821

Klafki, Wolfgang, and Helmut-Gerhard Müller. “Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972). Extended catalog for the exhibition. The first female professor of education at the Philipps University. Marburg 1992.” Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972). Extended catalog for the exhibition. The first female professor of education at the Philipps University. Marburg 1992. DIPF/BBF Archive. DIPF/BBF/Archive: BLO 1, personal papers. Berlin. Accessed June 21, 2023. https://archivdatenbank.bbf.dipf.de/actaproweb/archive.xhtml?id=Best++++f9ab6749-efef-42d8-b317-288c20ad6dd1&parent_id=

———. “Erw. Katalog Zur Ausstellung Elisabeth Blochmann (1892-1972). Die Erste Professorin Für Pädagogik an Der Philipps-Universität’,.” Schriften Der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, 1992. Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg. Universitätsbibliothek Marburg

“Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. S. P. S. L. 241/1-7.” Elisabeth F E Blochmann; Fritz Karsen; Carl A Mennicke; Juan Roura-Parella; Paul E Tauscher; Robert Ulich; Hans Weil, Date Not Recorded at Time of Cataloguing, n.d. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. Catalogue of the Archive of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, 1933-87. Weston Library. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/73821

Radbruch, Gustav (1878-1949) [inventor]. “Nachlass Gustav Radbruch.” Heid. Hs. 3716, 2022. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Heidelberg. https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-BF-6408

Elisabeth Blochmann Correspondence

Herman Nohl Correspondence

Wenzel, Hartmut. “Letters from Blochmann to Nohl III (for Oxford).” Transcription of Letter, 1932-1934. Frankenberger an Nohl

Heidegger Correspondence

Editions and Translations

Heidegger, Martin, and Elisabeth Blochmann. Martin Heidegger, Elisabeth Blochmann : Briefwechsel, 1918-1969. 167 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. Edited and translated by W. Joachim. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. Marbacher Schriften 33. Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1990.

Edler, Frank. “Letters to Elisabeth Blochmann (Translated by Frank H. W. Edler).” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14/15, no. 2/1 (1991): 563–77. https://doi.org/10.5840/gfpj199114/152/139

Moore, Ian Alexander. “ON THE NEWLY DISCOVERED ORIGINAL VERSION OF HEIDEGGER’S ‘WHAT IS METAPHYSICS?’” The Review of Metaphysics 72, no. 3 (287) (2019): 529–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/26633892

Manuscripts