Word: koenigsberg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classic in terseness and biting sarcasm is President Lowell's letter to Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg. The latter is answered in a tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert...
President Lowell has received a letter from Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg, Germany, asserting that the French Government retained certain private scientific property of his at Strassburg, including books and instruments, and requesting President Lowell to help him procure their return...