| Ref No | WIA GC/1929/3002 |
| Title | Saxl, Fritz to Warburg, Aby 30/04/1929 |
| Writer | Saxl, Fritz |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 30/04/1929 |
| DateNote | Warburg/Saxl |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | report on his lecture on Mithras; summarizes his lecture; the mediating position of Mithras who is first the messenger of Helios, then the conqueror of Helios and finally becomes Helios himself; sees the prototype in the Hercules myth; chaos, cosmogony, battle of Zeus with the giants; Franz Cumont thought that this cosmogony arose in an Iranian context, whilst Saxl thinks its origins were Greek; the travel to the land of Helios, where he gets the fruits from the tree of Knowledge, the golden apples of the Hesperides; then he gets to the land of the moon where he finds the bull of light, the carrier of the seed and of creation and brings him down to earth; on earth he sacrifices the bull on the command of Helios; detailed summary on ascent into heaven, baptism, meal; light is nibbled at by the scorpion who drags it into the cave, thus mingling light with dark; E. Panofsky helped him with illustrations, he is the only one who has a feeling for the importance of the history of the image and the history of the idea; re Oscar Ollendorff''s honorary doctorate: the question came at an inopportune moment; some months ago the university of Berlin asked the university of Hamburg to award an honorary doctorate to [Karl?] Scheffler; since Scheffler's books are poor, Panofsky desisted; Bruno Cassirer was angry, but Ernst Cassirer who would have liked to do Bruno a favour, understood that the demand was wrong and the case was dropped; to request an honorary doctorate after this debacle was unfortunate; Saxl has spoken with [C.O.] Czeschka re models for Planetarium; he thinks Warburg ought to be a member of the conference of directors; Saxl will speak with Richard Salomon about it; on H. Meier's PhD: it is getting better and will be finished in two months; does not know what to do with his Mithras lecture, he needs four weeks to work on it in peace; wants to know Warburg's views of the move Miss H. [Clara Hertz];on five pages: a summary of the Mithras research |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/14 | Ollendorff; Oscar (05/11/1865-) | 05/11/1865- |
| DS/UK/599 | Cassirer; Bruno (12/12/1872-29/10/1941) | 12/12/1872-29/10/1941 |
| DS/UK/716 | Saxl; Fritz (08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/01/1890 - 22/03/1948 |
| DS/UK/1273 | Panofsky; Erwin (30/03/1892-14/03/1968); Prof. Dr. phil. | 30/03/1892-14/03/1968 |
| DS/UK/1611 | Salomon; Richard Georg (22/04/1884-03/02/1966); Prof. Dr. phil. | 22/04/1884-03/02/1966 |
| DS/UK/1855 | Scheffler; Karl (1869-1951) | 1869-1951 |
| DS/UK/1878 | Czeschka; Carl Otto (22/10/1878-30/07/1960); Prof. | 22/10/1878-30/07/1960 |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |
| DS/UK/2281 | Cassirer; Ernst Alfred (1874-1945); Professor | 1874-1945 |
| DS/UK/2287 | Meier; Hans (1900-1941); Dr. phil. | 1900-1941 |