GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-003159
NameCarl Howard Pforzheimer
TitleMr.
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. 1879-01-29 - d. 1957-04-04 (new)
Linked Manuscriptsmanuscript owner - Letter from Mr Edward Coleman to Sir Richard Bulstrode [1]: PFORZ-MS-0720manuscript owner - Letter from Mr Edward Coleman to Sir Richard Bulstrode [2]: PFORZ-MS-0729manuscript owner - Letter from Sir Joseph Williamson to unidentified recipient: PFORZ-MS-0573manuscript owner - Letter from the office of Sir Joseph Williamson to unidentified recipient: PFORZ-MS-0537
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Associated Places
Source of DataHarry Ransom Center and New York Public Library (see links below); Hannah Yip.
Biographical Sources ConsultedHarry Ransom Center and New York Public Library (see links below)
Other NoteCarl H. Pforzheimer was born in New York, the son of Isaac and Mina Heyman Pforzheimer, on 29 January 1879. By the age of twenty-three, he had his own firm on the New York Stock Exchange. He rapidly gained a reputation as a private book collector, competing at auctions with Henry C. Folger, Henry E. Huntington, and John Pierpont Morgan. He was especially interested in the works of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and their contemporaries. However, he also acquired early editions of Tudor and Elizabethan literature and incunables. Pforzheimer died on 4 April 1957. The Shelley collection was donated to the New York Public Library in 1986, while much of the books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were acquired at auction by the Harry Ransom Center.
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00741&showrequest=0 | Information about Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) on the Harry Ransom Center web page. |
| www.nypl.org/about/divisions/pforzheimer-collection-shelley-and-his-circle | Information about Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) on the New York Public Library web page. |
GEMMS record createdOctober 27, 2020
GEMMS record last editedOctober 27, 2020