Papers of Professor Otto Schlapp
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Otto Schlapp (1859-1939) was appointed Edinburgh University's first Lecturer in German in 1894, subsequently becoming the first Professor of German from 1926 to 1929. His Papers (GB 237 Coll-231) consist of:
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- Class certificates, Edinburgh University, session 1880-1881, for Rhetoric and English Literature, and Sanskrit and Comparative Philology
- Medal for Sanskrit, Edinburgh University, session 1880-81
- LL.D diploma, 1930, Edinburgh University
- Letters, tributes and a decorated formal address on his retirement from Edinburgh University, 11 July 1929
- A copy of Schlapp's thesis, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Strassburg (Strasbourg)
- Copy of his letter of application to the Chair of German, Edinburgh University, along with testimonials and other documents
- An address on the place of modern languages in examinations for bursaries to Scottish universities, 1900
- Certificates of renunciation of German citizenship and of British naturalisation
- Invitations and photographs
- Cuttings relating to Scott and Carlyle medallions
- Etchings of the University
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In 1972, Schlapp presented an album entitled Chips from Storm's Workshop by C. F. Allan to the Gibson Library (formerly a University class library). The album is dated May 1925. The album contain's photographic copies including an autograph letter from Theodor Storm to his father-in-law, and facsimiles of manuscript pages of various works.