Otto Maull papers, 1910-1930

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Summary

Creators:
Maull, Otto
Abstract:
Otto Maull (1887-1957) was a German geologist and author who spent time in Latin America, which resulted in the publication of Die Landschaften Mittel-Brasiliens: Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise 1923 (1925) and Vom Itatiaya zum Paraguay: ergebnisse und erlebnisse einer forschungsreise durch Mittelbrasilien (1930). The collection consists of manuscripts, notes, pamphlets, reprints, offprints, newspapers, magazines, and clippings mostly in German, about South America, and one folder about Canada.
Extent:
3.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Otto Maull Papers (Collection 1466). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of manuscripts, notes, pamphlets, reprints, offprints, newspapers, magazines, and clippings mostly in German, about South America, and one folder about Canada. Much of the collection concerns Brazil, including German schools in Brazil and travel. Also includes materials relating to German organizations in Brazil and other South American countries, and institutes in Germany with a Latin American orientation.

Biographical / historical:

Maull was a German geologist and author who spent time in Latin America, which resulted in the publication of Die Landschaften Mittel-Brasiliens: Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise 1923 (1925) and Vom Itatiaya zum Paraguay: ergebnisse und erlebnisse einer forschungsreise durch Mittelbrasilien (1930); he died in 1957.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Otto Maull Papers (Collection 1466). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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