Archival material related to Werner Fenchel
Werner Fenchel papers
A collection of Werner Fenchel papers is located in the Archive, Institute
for Mathematical Science, University of Copenhagen. An inventory of
the papers is accessible
in Danish and
English at the homepages of the Archive. The collection consists of:
- Various notes and scientific manuscripts.
- Manuscripts for many lectures and talks presented by Fenchel
during his career.
- A large manuscript for a book entitled Discontinuous groups of motions, which was never published.
- A collection of reprints of most of Fenchel's scientific works.
- Biographical material including many newspaper articles about
Danish mathematicians.
- Correspondence, se below.
Fenchel correspondence
Below is a table of Fenchel's major correspondents.
| Correspondent |
Letters from Fenchel |
Letters to Fenchel |
Location |
| |
Period |
# |
Period |
# |
|
| Blackett, Donald W. |
|
|
1951-53 |
2 |
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
| Courant, Richard |
1933-34 |
2 |
|
|
Courant Papers (kept privately by E. Courant, New
York). |
| Gerstenhaber |
1954 |
2 |
|
|
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
| Jessen, Børge |
1930-69 |
69 |
1949-51 |
9 |
Børge
Jessen Papers, the Archive,
Copenhagen. |
| Jessen, Børge |
1931 |
1 |
|
|
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
| Kuhn, Harold |
1951-53 |
1 |
1951-53 |
2 |
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
| Nielsen, Jakob |
|
|
1939-59 |
12 |
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
| Tucker, A. W. |
|
|
1951-53 |
11 |
Box 1, W. Fenchel Papers. |
Fenchel's minor correspondents include the following:
- There is one letter to W. Fenchel from:
Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen (1982), Otto Haupt (1967) and Annemarie Ulm (1983)
(all letters are in Box 1 of the Werner
Fenchel Papers, at the Archive, Institute
for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Material in the O. Veblen papers
There is some information about W. Fenchel in the folder "Subject File:
Refugees, Fenchel Werner", Container 30, Oswald Veblen Papers, Library of Congress.
For example there is a c.v. until 1940. There is also information about
Fenchel in part of Veblen's correspondence with others.
Material in the Rockefeller Archive Center
"Fenchel, Dr. Werner (Germany) NS", Fellowship Cards, Record Group 10,
Rockefeller Foundation,
Rockefeller Archive Center contains a little information about Fenchel's
Rockefeller fellowship 1930-31, and support to Fenchel in 1933 and 1944.
Autobiographical material
- Erinnerungen aus der Studienzeit [Memories of the time of study].
Jahrbuch überblicke Mathematik, Bibliographisches Institut,
Mannheim, 1980, pp.155-166.
- An autobiographical article by Fenchel in German
about his time of study.
- A typewritten manuscript for a talk in Danish (probably a talk in the
Danish Mathematical Society) 18 pages long without title or date exists
in Box
1 in the
Werner
Fenchel papers, at the Archive, Institute
for Mathematical Science, University of Copenhagen. It is probably a
version of the "Erinnerungen aus der Studienzeit".
- Portræt af en videnskabsmand 2.
A video interview of Werner Fenchel made by Gert Kjærgård Pedersen
19 August 1986. The
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 1986.
- This video in Danish is available at the Academy. No transcript
exist, but a summary in Danish is available.
Last updated: 2000.07.10, 1998.11.15