TY - JOUR
TI - Some remarks and documents concerning the emigration of Polish mathematicians during the 1930s and early 1940s
AU - Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard
TI - Some remarks and documents concerning the emigration of Polish mathematicians during the 1930s and early 1940s
AB - 
	The history of the sufferings and the emigration of mathematicians under Nazi influence would be very incomplete without considering the perhaps most vibrant and at the same time most victimized European mathematical school of the 1930s, namely the Polish one. Polish mathematical emigration contributed – similarly to German-speaking emigration – considerably to the development of mathematics in the host countries, particularly in the United States.

	The paper contributes to the discussion with some archival documents from two specific sources, which have so far found relatively little attention among historians of mathematics. These are the files of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, and the files related to the Asylum Fellowship Planorganized by the Astronomer at Harvard University Harlow Shapley, now in possession of the Harvard University Archives.
VL - 2019
IS - 18 (2019)
PY - 2019
SN - 2451-3202
C1 - 2543-702X
SP - 139
EP - 162
DO - 10.4467/2543702XSHS.19.006.11012
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-historiae-scientiarum/article/some-remarks-and-documents-concerning-the-emigration-of-polish-mathematicians-during-the-1930s-and-early-1940s
KW - emigration of Polish mathematicians
KW - occupation by Nazi Germany
KW - problems of academic job market
KW - Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL)
KW - Shapley’s Asylum Fellowship Plan