Eric Voegelin
Voegelin Library

At the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute, there is an archive containing a wide range of materials—some of which are otherwise difficult to access—that collects works by and about Eric Voegelin. On this basis, all interested parties are enabled to engage in in-depth scholarly study of Voegelin’s work. The holdings of this Voegelin Library include:

  • The estate of Eric Voegelin, stored in the archives of the Hoover Institution, on 101 microfilms (biographical documents, correspondence, speeches, drafts, essays, reviews, teaching materials, dissertations, newspaper articles, etc.)
  • Voegelin’s independent publications and their German translations
  • Approximately 60 essays, treatises, and reviews authored by Voegelin between 1922 and 1985
  • Lectures from his teaching activities in Munich, transcribed or recorded on tape, as well as manuscripts of lectures he delivered on various occasions
  • Unpublished manuscripts and drafts
  • English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and Japanese translations of Voegelin’s works
  • The most important internationally published monographs and collected volumes on Voegelin’s work and themes
  • Several hundred articles from German and foreign journals and collected volumes, especially from the USA, Italy, and Germany
  • A comprehensive collection of reviews of Voegelin’s publications

The holdings are located in Room G 103 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute. Interested parties should contact PD Dr. Christian Schwaabe: schwaabe@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

A detailed inventory of the holdings can be found here:

Holdings of the Voegelin Archive