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Anthropology
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Logic
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Metaphysics
Moral Phil.
Nat. Law
Pedagogy
Physics
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List: Manuscripts by Location

Alphabetical List of Libraries and Other Public Facilities [bottom of this page]

AustriaWien ]  •  FinlandHelsinki ]  •  FranceStrasbourg ]  •  GermanyBad Homburg ] [ Berlin: Ak-Archiv ] [ Berlin: GStAPK ] [ Berlin: SBPK ] [ Göttingen: StUB ] [ Halle ] [ Königsberg: Regierung ] [ Königsberg: StB ] [ Königsberg: SUB ] [ Leipzig: UB ] [ Leipzig: StB ] [ Marburg: UB ] [ Pillau ] [ Rostock ]  •  ItalyMessina ]  •  LatviaRiga: Fb ] [ Riga: LNB ]  •  PolandGdansk ] [ Szeczecin ] [ Torun ] [ Warszawa ] [ Wroclaw ]  •  Russia [Baltijsk. See: Pillau ] [ St. Petersburg ]  •  ScotlandGlasgow ]  •  USANew York City ] [ Philadelphia ]

Privately Owned Manuscripts

Unavailable Manuscripts

Austria top ]

Wien
Universitätsbibliothek

University Library (Vienna) [ ub.univie.ac.at/ ]

Address: Universität Wien Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA.

Logic

 • an-Wien (Ms. II 859).

Finland top ]

Helsinki
Helsingin Yliopiston Kirjasto

Helsinki University Library, University of Helsinki [ www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/ ]

Address: POB 15, Unioninkatu 36, 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND.

Anthropology

 • an-Dingelstaedt (H MS D.I.18)

Physical Geography

 • Hesse (H MS E.ö.V.19).

Logic

 • Hechsel (H MS D.III.31).

France top ]

Strasbourg
Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire.

Address: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg/FRANCE). [ www-bnus.u-strasbg.fr/ ]

Physical Geography

 • Fehlhauer (Ms. 3016).

Italy top ]

Messina
Messina Biblioteca Universitaria.

University Library of Messina

Address: Università di Messina, Biblioteca Universitaria, Via dei Verdi 71, I-98100 Messina, ITALY).

Physical Geography

 • an-Messina (Ms. FN 6).

Germany top ]

Bad Homburg: Stadtarchiv top ]

City archive

Address: Gotisches Haus, Tannenwaldweg 102, D-61350 Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, GERMANY). Phone: 49 (6172) 37 882

Natural Theology

 • Magath (Phs 34).


Berlin: Ak-Archiv top ]

Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

See specifically: Nachlaß-Adickes, Nachlaß-Kant.

Address: Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin, GERMANY. [www.bbaw.de/archivbbaw/] – Kant-Nachlaß

Anthropology

 • an-Berlin 1 (NL-Kant 8).

 • an-Parow (NL-Kant 11).

 • an-Pillau 1 (NL-Kant 10).

 • an-Prieger (NL-Kant 12).

 • Brauer (NL-Kant 7).

 • Reichel (NL-Kant 9).

Physical Geography

 • an-Barth (NL-Kant 14).

 • an-Pillau 3 (NL-Kant 16).

 • Herder 1 (NL-Kant 15).  See also: Berlin, SBPK.

 • Powalski 1 (NL-Kant 13).

 • Volckmann 1 (NL-Kant 15).  See also: Göttingen, StUB.

Logic

 • an-Blomberg (NL-Kant 24 & 25).

 • Volckmann 2 (NL-Kant 27).

Metaphysics

 • Herder 4 (NL-Kant 19).  See also: Berlin, SBPK.

 • von Schön 2 (NL-Kant 17).

 • Volckmann 3 (NL-Kant 18).  See also: Göttingen, StUB.

Moral

 • an-Berlin 2 (NL-Kant 20).

 • an-Dilthey (NL-Kant 22).

 • Brandt (NL-Kant 21).

 • Powalski (NL-Kant 23).


Berlin: GStAPK top ]

Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Address: Archivstraße 12-14, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem), GERMANY). gsta.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de]

Metaphysics

 • von Schön 3 (Dep. 35: v. Brünneck #92).


Berlin: SBPK top ]

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz / State Library of Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage [ www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ ] [glossary]

Haus Unter den Linden

Address: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Under den Linden 8, D-10117 (Mitte), GERMANY).

Haus Potsdamer Straße

Address: Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Straße 33, D-10785 Berlin (Tiergarten), GERMANY).

Anthropology

 • an-Friedländer 1 (Ms. germ. quart 399).

 • an-Friedländer 4.3 (Ms. germ. quart. 400.3).

 • an-Klotz (Ms. germ. quart. 2371).

 • an-Marienburg (Ms. germ. quart. 1565).

 • Busolt 1 (Ms. germ. quart. 1295).

 • Philippi I (Ms. germ. quart. 1308).

Encylopedia

 • an-Friedländer 4.1 (Ms. germ. quart. 400.1).

Physical Geography

 • an-Friedländer 2 (Ms. germ. quart. 398).

 • Busolt 2 (Ms. germ. quart. 1296).

 • Herder 1 (NL-Herder XXV.44, 44a, 46a). See also: Berlin, Ak-Archiv.

 • Philippi 2 (Ms. Diez C. Quart. 16).

Logic

 • Busolt 3 (Ms. germ. quart. 1294).

 • Herder 2 (NL-Herder XXV.37, 37a, 46a).

Mathematics

 • Herder 3 (NL-Herder XXV.45, 46).

Metaphysics

 • Herder 4 (NL-Herder XX.188; XXV.38, 39, 40, 41, 41a, 46a; XXVI.5).  See also: Berlin, Ak-Archiv.

Moral

 • an-Friedländer 3 (Ms. germ. quart. 401).

 • Herder 5 (NL-Herder XXV.42, 43).

Physics

 • an-Friedländer 4.4 (Ms. germ. quart. 400.4).

 • Herder 6 (NL-Herder XX.188; XXV. 46a).


Göttingen: StUB top ]

Deposita der Akademie der Wissenschaften

Located in the manuscript division of the Lower Saxony State- and University Library

Archive of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (Deposita der Akademie der Wissenschaften, located in the manuscript division of the Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek).

Address: Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Abteilung Handschriften und Seltene Drucke, 37070 Göttingen, GERMANY; Street address: Papendiek 14). [Academy: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/sh/10150.html ] [Archiv: wwwuser.gwdg.de/~uniarch/index.htm ]

Physical Geography

 • Volckmann 1 (#6).  See also: Berlin, Ak-Archiv.

Metaphysics

 • Volckmann 3 (#7).  See also: Berlin, Ak-Archiv.

Moral

 • Vigilantius 4, copy (#7).  See also: Königsberg, SUB.


Halle, UB top ]

Martin-Luther-Universität

University- and Regional-Library Sachsen-Anhalt/Martin-Luther-Universität

Address: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 06098 Halle (Saale), GERMANY). [ www.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/ ]

Natural Theology

 • Mrongovius 3, copy (Yc 4 8°). Lost.  See also: POLAND/Gdansk.

 • Volckmann 4, copy (Yc 4 8°).


Königsberg: Ostpreußen top ]



All the known lecture notes cataloged in the following Königsberg institutions have been missing since World War II, and many or most were presumably destroyed during the British bombing raid during the night of August 29/30, 1944, when the historic city center — Kneiphof, Altstadt, Löbenicht — was laid to waste.



Königsberg: Bibliothek der Ostpreußischen Regierung

Library of the East Prussian Government

Anthropology

 • an-Ostpreußische Regierung.


Königsberg: StB top ]

Stadtbibliothek Königsberg / Königsberg City Library

Anthropology

 • Matuszewski (S 123).

Physical Geography

 • an-Karmann (S 94).

 • an-Königsberg 2 (S 73).

Logic

 • Rudolph (S 82. 4°).

Moral

 • an-Königsberg 6 (S. 65).


Königsberg: SUB top ]

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg / Königsberg State- and University Library

Anthropology

 • an-Elbing (Ms. 2585).

 • an-Gotthold 1 (Gotthold, Ub 1 (G)).

 • an-Jacobi (Ms. 2584).

 • an-Königsberg 1 (Ms. 1730).

 • an-Reicke 1 (Ms. 2578).

 • an-Reicke 2 (Ms. 2580).

 • Elsner (Ms. 2579).

 • Flottwell (Ms. 2576).

 • Nicolai (Ms. 2534).

 • Pohl (Ms. 2023).

 • Puttlich 1 (Ms. 2577).

Physical Geography

 • an-Königsberg 3 (Ms. 1729).

 • an-Königsberg 4 (Ms. 1869).

 • an-Prussia (Ms. 2533).

 • an-Reicke 3 (Ms. 2582a).

 • an-Reicke 4 (Ms. 2582b).

 • Crueger (Ms. 2596).

 • Puttlich 2 (Ms. 2599).

 • Vigilantius 1 (Gotthold, Ub 9 fol.).

Logic

 • an-Reicke 5 (Ms. 2583).

 • Grünheide (Ms. 2444).

 • Hintz (Ms. 2582).

 • Hoffmann (Ms. 1946).

 • Vigilantius 2 (Gotthold, Ub 17).

Metaphysics

 • an-Königsberg 5 (Ms. 1731).

 • an-Korff (Gotthold, Ub 3 (G)).

 • an-Reicke 6 (Ms. 2586).

 • Vigilantius (Gotthold).

Moral

 • an-Gotthold 2 (Gotthold, Ub 1 (G) 14551).

 • an-Gotthold 3 (Gotthold, Ub 2 (G) 14555 & 14555.1).

 • an-Reicke 7 (Ms. 2581).

 • Vigilantius 4 (Gotthold, Ub 11 (G) 14563).   See also: Göttingen, StUB.


Leipzig: UB top ]

Bibliothek der Universität Leipzig. / (previously: KMU): University Library of Leipzig

Address: Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig, GERMANY). [ www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/index.html ]

From 1953 until February 1999 the university was called the “Karl-Marx-Universität”; since then it has assumed its old name.  About two-thirds of the old library was destroyed during World War II, but for lack of money was restored only in 1992.

Logic

 • an-Pölitz 3.1 (Rep. VI 42c).

Metaphysics

 • an-Pölitz 3.2 (Rep. VI 42c)


Leipzig: StB top ]

Stadt-Bibliothetik / Leipzig City Library

Address: Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz 10/11, 04107 Leipzig, GERMANY). [ www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/bildung/bib/sbib/stadtbib/zeiten/ ]

Lehmann reports that 95% of the contents of the Leipzig city library (where the Pölitz collection was held) was destroyed in an air raid during WWII [1966; AA 24: 980].

Metaphysics

 • an-Pölitz 1 (Bibliotheca Pölitziana).  Lost.


Marburg: UB top ]

Universitäts-Bibliothek, Philipps-Universität / University Library

Address: University Library, Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg, GERMANY

Anthropology

 • Naumburg [Ms 1038, 3] [online].

Moral

 • an-Bering 2 (copy; annotations made in Bering’s copy of Carl Christian Erhard Schmid, Critik der reinen Vernunft im Grundrisse zu Vorlesungen, nebst einem Wörterbuche zum leichtern Gebrauch der Kantischen Schriften (Jena: Cröker, 1786).) [XIV C 233]

 • Kaehler J. J. [Ms 1038, 2] [online]

Physical Geography

 • an-Werner [Ms 1038, 1] [online].


Pillau: Realprogymnasium top ]

(now: Baltijsk/RUSSIA).

Encyclopedia

 • an-Pillau 2. Lost.


Rostock top ]

Universitäts-Bibliothek / University Library

Mailing Address: Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, 18051 Rostock, GERMANY.

Street Address: Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Altbettelmönchstr. 4, 18055 Rostock, GERMANY.

Logic

 • Philippi 3 (Mss. var 33b1).


Latvia top ]

Riga: Fb

Fundamentala Biblioteka, Latvian Academy of Sciences / Latvian Academy of Sciences [ www.llu.lv/ ]

Address: Latvijas Lauksaimniecibas universitates Fundamentala biblioteka (LLU FB), Liela iela 2, Jelgava, LV - 3001, LATVIA).

Anthropology

 • Collins 1 (R 2879).

Moral

 • Collins 2 (R 2878).


Riga: LNB

Latvijas Nacionala biblioteka / Latvian National Library [ www.lnb.lv/eng/index.htm ]

Address: Latvijas Nacionala biblioteka (LNB), K.Barona 14, Riga, LV - 1235.

Anthropology

 • Euchel (R A 182, #4).

Poland top ]

Gdansk

(German: Danzig) Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk

Address: Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, ul. Wa∏owa 15, 80-858 Gdansk, Poland) [ www.bgpan.gda.pl/ ] Phone: 48 (58) 312 970.

Anthropology

 • Mrongovius 1 (Ms. 2217).

Logic

 • Mrongovius 4.3 (Ms. 2218).

Metaphysics

 • Mrongovius 2 (Ms. 2214).

Moral

 • Mrongovius 4.2 (Ms. 2218).

 • an-Mrongovius (Ms. 2213).

Natural Law

 • Feyerabend (Ms. 2215).

Physics

 • Mrongovius 4.1 (Ms. 2218).

Natural Theology

 • Mrongovius 3 (Ms. 2216). Lost.  See also: Halle, UB.


Szeczecin

(German: Stettin) Marienstiftgymnasium / Marienstiftgymnasium.

Metaphysics

 • Willudovius. Lost.


Torun

(German: Thorn) Nikolaus Kopernikus Universität, Biblioteka Glowna / Nicolaus Copernicus University Library.

Address: Gagarina 13, 87-100 Torun, POLAND). [ www.bu.uni.torun.pl/en/ ]

Metaphysics

 • Vigilantius 3, copy (R 631).  See also: Königsberg, SUB.


Warszawa

Biblioteka Narodowa / National Library in Warsaw

Address: Biblioteka Narodowa, al. Niepodleglosci 213, 02-086 Warsaw, POLAND). [ www.bn.org.pl/ ]

Logic

 • an-Warszawa (Rps II.4192).


Wroclaw

(German: Breslau) Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka / Wroclaw University Library

Address: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, ul. Karola Szajnochy 10, 50-076 Wroclaw, POLAND). [ www.bu.uni.wroc.pl/ ]

Logic

 • Bauch (R 2472).

Russia top ]

St. Petersburg

National Public Saltykov-Stschedrin-Bibliothek / National Public Library, St. Petersburg

Address: Saltykov-Schtschedrin-Bibliothek, Sadowaja Ul. 18, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA). [ www.goethe.de/oe/pet/buchulit/debib-ss.htm ]

Anthropology

 • an-Petersburg (Q.III N° 168).


Scotland top ]

Glasgow

Glasgow University Library

Address: Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QE, SCOTLAND). Phone: (0141) 330 6767 [Special Collections: special.lib.gla.ac.uk/index.html ]

Anthropology

 • an-Hamilton (MS Hamilton 59).

USA top ]

New York City

Columbia University Library

Address: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, 6th Fl. East, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027, USA). [ www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rare/index.html ]

Physical Geography

 • Wolter (X 193 K).


Philadelphia

Rare Books & Manuscript Library, Van Pelt Library, The University of Pennsylvania

Address: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/USA). [ www.library.upenn.edu/rbm/ ]

Physical Geography

 • Kaehler J. S. (U Penn Ms. Codex 1120). facsimile ]


Privately Owned Manuscripts top ]

Anthropology

 • Dohna-Wundlacken 1 (Dohna family; Bentheim, Germany).

Physical Geography

 • an-Holstein Beck (Stahlberg family).

 • Dohna-Wundlacken 2 (Dohna family; Bentheim, Germany).

 • Dönhoff (Dönhoff family).

Logic

 • Dohna-Wundlacken 3 (Dohna family; Bentheim, Germany).

Metaphysics

 • Dohna-Wundlacken 4 (Dohna family; Bentheim, Germany).

 

Unavailable Manuscripts top ]

(see also the manuscripts listed under “Königsberg,” above)

Anthropology

 • an-Fernow.

 • an-Forberg.

 • an-Hippel.

 • an-Mellin.

 • an-Minerva.

 • an-Pockels 1.

 • an-Reimarus.

 • an-Reinhold.

 • an-Starke 1.

 • an-Starke 2.

 • an-Starke 3.

 • Dohna-Schlobitten 1.

 • von Schön 1.

 • Weber.

Encyclopedia

 • an-Hippel.

Physical Geography

 • an-Gensichen.

 • an-Rink 1.

 • an-Rink 2.

 • an-Starke 4.

 • an-Trescho.

 • an-Vollmer 1.

 • an-Vollmer 2.

 • an-Vollmer 3.

 • Nicolovius.

Logic

 • an-Bering 1.

 • an-Jäsche.

 • an-Vollmer 4.

 • Dohna-Schlobitten 2.

 • Flach.

 • Gerber.

 • Herz.

 • Weisflog.

Metaphysics

 • an-Hippel.

 • Motherby 1.

 • Nicolai 2.

 • Rosenhagen.

Moral

 • an-Bering 2. See: Marburg: UB.

 • an-Hippel 4.

 • an-Pockels 2.

 • an-Vollmer 5.

 • Brauer 2.

 • Dohna-Schlobitten 3.

 • Kutzner.

 • Motherby 2.

Natural Law

 • Gentz.

Pedagogy

 • an-Rink 3.

Natural Theology

 • an-Coing.

 • an-Pölitz 2.

 • Mrongovius 3. See: Halle.

 • Volckmann 4. See: Halle.

Alphabetical List of Libraries and Other Public Facilities [top]

(mentioned in these pages as housing manuscripts)

Ak-Archiv (Berlin): Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Address: Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin, GERMANY). [www.bbaw.de/archivbbaw/: Kant Nachlass] [Kantmaterialien, Deposita der Kant-Ausgabe. (NL-Adickes, NL-Kant).]

Bad Homburg: Stadtarchiv (Address: Gotisches Haus, Tannenwaldweg 102, D-61350 Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, GERMANY).  Phone: 49 (6172) 37 882

Gdansk (German: Danzig): Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk (Address: Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, ul. Wa∏owa 15, 80-858 Gdansk, Poland) [www.bgpan.gda.pl/] Phone: 48 (58) 312 970..

Glasgow: Glasgow University Library (Address: Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QE, SCOTLAND). Phone: (0141) 330 6767 [Special Collections: special.lib.gla.ac.uk/index.html]

Göttingen: Archive of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (Deposita der Akademie der Wissenschaften, located in the manuscript division of the Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek).  (Address: Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Abteilung Handschriften und Seltene Drucke, 37070 Göttingen, GERMANY; Street address: Papendiek 14). [Academy: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/sh/10150.html] [Archiv: wwwuser.gwdg.de/~uniarch/index.htm]

GStAPK: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Address: Archivstraße 12-14, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem), GERMANY). [gsta.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de]

Halle: University- and Regional-Library Sachsen-Anhalt/Martin-Luther-Universität (Address: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 06098 Halle (Saale), GERMANY). [www.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/]

Helsinki: University Library, University of Helsinki (Address: POB 15, Unioninkatu 36, 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND). [www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/]

Leipzig UB (previously: KMU): University Library of Leipzig (Address: Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig, GERMANY). [www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/index.html]

From 1953 until February 1999 the university was called the “Karl-Marx-Universität”; since then it has assumed its old name.  About two-thirds of the old library was destroyed during World War II, but for lack of money was restored only in 1992.

Leipzig, StB: Leipzig City Library (Address: Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz 10/11, 04107 Leipzig, GERMANY). [www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/bildung/bib/sbib/stadtbib/zeiten/]

Lehmann reports that 95% of the contents of the Leipzig city library (where the Pölitz collection was held) was destroyed in an air raid during WWII [1966; AA 24: 980].

Marburg Kant-Archiv: (Address: Institut für Philosophie, Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6B, 35032 Marburg, GERMANY). [Kant On-Line: www.uni-marburg.de/kant/webseitn/home_inh.htm]

Messina: University Library of Messina (Address: Università di Messina, Biblioteca Universitaria, Via dei Verdi 71, I-98100 Messina, ITALY).

New York: Columbia University Library (Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, 6th Fl. East, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027, USA). [www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rare/index.html]

Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/USA). [www.library.upenn.edu/rbm/]

Pillau (now: Baltijsk): Realprogymnasium.

Riga: Fundamentala Biblioteka, Latvian Academy of Sciences ?(Address: Latvijas Lauksaimniecibas universitates Fundamentala biblioteka (LLU FB), Liela iela 2, Jelgava, LV - 3001, LATVIA). [www.llu.lv/]

Riga: National Library (Address: Latvijas Nacionala biblioteka (LNB), K.Barona 14, Riga, LV - 1235) [www.lnb.lv/eng/index.htm]

Rostock: University Library, Rostock. (Mailing address: Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, 18051 Rostock, GERMANY; Street address: Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Altbettelmönchstr. 4, 18055 Rostock)  [www.uni-rostock.de/ub/]

SBPK: Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz [www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/]
Haus Unter den Linden (Address: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Under den Linden 8, D-10117 (Mitte), GERMANY).
Haus Potsdamer Straße (Address: Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Straße 33, D-10785 Berlin (Tiergarten), GERMANY).

The SBPK consists of two buildings.  Haus I (Unter den Linden 8) was built in 1914 to house the Königliche Bibliothek (founded in 1701) and re-named the Preußische Staatsbibliothek in 1918.  It was partially destroyed during WW II, although most of the rarities had been warehoused in depots throughout Germany.  After the war, those holdings stored in what became “East Germany” (the Deutsche Demokratische Republik/DDR or German Democratic Republic) were returned to the repaired library (now part of East Berlin), and beginning in 1954 it was called the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek (or Stabi, or “Stabi-Ost,” once its western counterpart was constructed on the other side of the Berlin Wall).  Along with the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig, it served as the national library for the DDR. In 1990 the holdings were joined with its counterpart in former West Berlin (the SBPK).

Haus II (Potsdamer Straße 33) was built in 1978 to serve as the “Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz.”  The rarities housed during World War II in what became “West Germany” (the Bundesrepublik Deutschland/BRD or Federal Republic of Germany) were collected at Tübingen and at Marburg (about 80% of the western holdings were housed in the eastern wing of the castle, the so-called Wilhelmsbau that now houses a museum of cultural history), and in 1978 were moved to the newly opened library on Potsdamer Straße, close to the Berlin Wall, but on the western side. These two institutions — Haus 1 and Haus 2 — whose buildings stand about two kilometers from each other) were brought together in 1990 as the “Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin — Preußischer Kulturbesitz.” All manuscripts are in Haus II on Potsdamer Straße.

StB: Stadtbibliothek Königsberg (destroyed in WW II).

St. Petersburg: National Public Library, St. Petersburg  (Address: Saltykov-Schtschedrin-Bibliothek, Sadowaja Ul. 18, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA). [www.goethe.de/oe/pet/buchulit/debib-ss.htm]

Szeczecin (German: Stettin): Marienstiftgymnasium.

Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg/FRANCE). [www-bnus.u-strasbg.fr/]

SUB: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg (destroyed in WW II).

Torun (German: Thorn): Nicolaus Copernicus University Library (Gagarina 13, 87-100 Torun, POLAND). [www.bu.uni.torun.pl/en/]

Warszawa: National Library in Warsaw (Address: Biblioteka Narodowa, al. Niepodleglosci 213, 02-086 Warsaw, POLAND). [www.bn.org.pl/]

Wien: University Library (Address: Universität Wien Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA). [ub.univie.ac.at/]

Wroclaw (German: Breslau): University Library of Wroclaw (Address: Uniwerstet Wroclawski, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, ul. Karola Szajnochy 10, 50-076 Wroc∏aw, POLAND). [www.bu.uni.wroc.pl/]


I have received several helpful corrections to this list from Marco Santi (2024).