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von Zedlitz, George William : Papers

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Reference NumberARC-0462Creatorvon Zedlitz, George William, Professor, 1871-1949DescriptionThe collection includes family and autobiographical notes, correspondence, notebooks, and sketches. Also included are letters from Diamond Jenness to his former professor, George William von Zedlitz. The letters relate to the 1913-1918 Canadian Artic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, with Diamond Jenness as chief ethnologist.
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyGeorge William Edward Ernest von Zedlitz was the only child of English woman Mary Bethia Wolff and Baron Sigismund von Zedlitz und Neukirk. He attended Oxford University graduating with an MA. After his mother's death he left Britain for a chair at Victoria College, Wellington, and contributed greatly to the life of the college as the first professor of modern languages. With the outbreak of World War I, von Zedlitz was forced out of his position by government legislation. He was eventually reappointed as an emeritus professor in 1936. He died in Lower Hutt in 1949
(From Dictionary of New Zealand Biography).

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Watercolour sketch 'Myself, at Villa Harrach, Friedensthal'

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