- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1980
- Title:
- Georges Florovsky Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ft848q630
- Dates:
- 1892-1986 (mostly 1950-1969)
- Size:
- 88 boxes and 42.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-83; B-000795; B-000796; B-000797; B-000798; B-000799
- Language:
- and
Abstract
The Georges Florovsky Papers consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, and memorabilia of clergyman, teacher and author, Georges Florovsky.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, and memorabilia of Florovsky, reflecting his career at various academic institutions, such as Saint Vladimir's Theological Seminary in New York (1948-1956) and Harvard Divinity School (1956-1964), teaching patristics and Russian religious thought, and later at Princeton (1964-1972), teaching Slavic languages and literatures. The collection contains articles and papers written in several languages, mostly Russian and English, but also French, German, Rumanian, Italian, and Greek; card files; his notes and bibliographic references; and bibliographies of his writings. Much of the material concerns his work in the World Council of Churches, as a member of the Executive Committee and the Commission on Faith and Order. Correspondence pertains, among other things, to his involvement in the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius in London, the Parisian emigre community, and activities at Harvard. Correspondents include Svetlana Allilueva, Nikolai Arsenev, Nicholas Berdiaev, Father Sergius Bulgakov, Peter Struve, and George Vernadsky. In addition, there are several boxes of Florovsky family correspondence. Correspondence is largely in Russian, with occasional letters to Florovsky written in English, German, Greek, and French.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1980
Georges Florovsky, clergyman, teacher and author, was born in Odessa, Russia. Ordained as a priest in 1932, he held many academic posts in the United States.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from the author.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated from the collection during 2014 reprocessing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 1995. Finding aid written in 1995. Correspondence was reprocessed by Lindsay Ceballos (GS) in 2014. Arrangement and description were enhanced and selective reprocessing was conducted by Kelly Bolding and Faith Charlton in 2016, with assistance from Isabella Litke (GS) and Fiona Bell '18.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research. Teaching materials (housed in Boxes 5-7) are closed for 75 years from the date of creation due to the presence of student records.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Georges Florovsky Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ft848q630
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-83; B-000795; B-000796; B-000797; B-000798; B-000799
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Clergy -- United States.
Fathers of the Church.
Slavic languages -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Slavic literature -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- 20th century.
Theology -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Articles.
Bibliographies.
Correspondence.
Photographs. - Names:
- Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius
World Council of Churches.
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Harvard Divinity School.
Princeton University