| Ref No | WIA GC/1929/2983 |
| Title | Saxl, Fritz to Warburg, Aby 25/03/1929 |
| Writer | Saxl, Fritz |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 25/03/1929 |
| DateNote | 'Warburg/Saxl' file |
| Format | typescript, top and carbon copy |
| Contents | encloses newspaper cuttings re 'collection Warburg' in Hamburg Planetarium; they have been written to spite Munich; on changing lecture dates for A. Farinelli; on Wilhelm Gundel, his work, his remuneration from Notgemeinschaft; Gundel has finished his long entry on star signs for Pauly-Wissowa; Gundel now has to finish the entry on star signs for Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's dictionary; it will be a whole volume in the series, assisted by photo material from KBW; Gundel will travel to Rome to look for images in archaeological institutes and then to Athens where he found a companion piece to Tabula Bianchini; wants Warburg to write letters of introduction for Gundel; acknowledges receipt of Warburg's cable that Gundel should collaborate with the Planetarium exhibition; Saxl is very happy about this; on Gundel's Decan research with their decisive influence on Warburg's and Saxl's research; it is not enough to trace the Decans back to Babylonian sources, one has to trace them back to Egyptian sources; the Greek reports, that they had learnt astronomy in Babylon, are correct; in the Egyptian culture a link between both Babylonian and Greek culture was created which survives in European culture; on Gundel's workload, his finances etc; on a request by Panofsky, to find the caption of an image on earthly and heavenly love in a manuscript inventory of Gallerie Borghese; mentions [H.] Brauer, [Ernst] Steinmann |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/323 | Steinmann; Ernst (1866-1934); Prof. Dr. phil. | 1866-1934 |
| DS/UK/716 | Saxl; Fritz (08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948 |
| DS/UK/907 | Gundel; Wilhelm (1880-1945); Prof. Dr. | 1880-1945 |
| DS/UK/910 | Roscher; Wilhelm Heinrich (12/02/1845-09/03/1923); Prof. Dr. | 12/02/1845-09/03/1923 |
| DS/UK/1273 | Panofsky; Erwin (30/03/1892-14/03/1968); Prof. Dr. phil. | 30/03/1892-14/03/1968 |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |