É. Apor , I. Ormos (ed.): Goldziher Memorial Conference, June 21–22, 2000, Budapest.

ORMOS, István: The Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher and Max Herz

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF IGNAZ GOLDZIHER AND MAX HERZ István Ormos Budapest The correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher consists of approximately 13 600 letters. It was bequeathed to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by his widow in 1925 and is now kept in the Oriental Collection of the Academy Library.

1 The importance of these letters is not unknown to the scholarly community, primarily because of the edition of certain important parts of it.

2 Yet the full exploitation of the wealth of data offered by this rich mine of information remains a task of the future. In the present paper I want to offer a survey of the correspondence between Goldziher and an almost wholly forgotten luminary in the field of studies of Islamic culture. It sheds light on a deep personal relationship while at the same time offering interesting pieces of scholarly information and serving as an important source for the future biography of an outstanding figure in the history of Islamic architecture. Max Herz Pasha was born in 1856 and died in 1919. As was the case with the majority of Hungarian Jews, he had a German family name in accordance with the Mrs. Laura Goldziher (21 February 1856 29 December 1925) bequeathed her husband's correspondence, handwritten notes and collection of excerpta to the Hungarian Academy in her will. Her son Károly contacted the secretary general of the Academy, Jenő Balogh, in the first days of January 1925 and informed him of her mother's will. The Nachlass was transported from Holló utca 4, ist floor, to the Academy on 18 January, between 1 and 2 p.m. In December 1931 Károly and J. Balogh agreed that Károly would catalogue the letters. The Goldziher Collection was inaugurated on 18 October 1933. See RAL 66/1926, 163/1926, 2063/1931, Collection of Manuscripts and Old Printed Books, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Akadémiai Értesítő 43 (1933), 192-193, 347-348. The orthography of the letters has been adapted to modem standards. 1 think the fact that Mrs. Goldziher disposed of her husband's most precious belongings, including his library, suggests that Goldziher did not leave a will at his death. On his "spiritual'' will of 1901 see note 95 below and also note 159 in my discussion of Goldziher's mother tongue in the present volume. See Somogyi, Joseph de, 'A Collection of the Literary Remains of Ignace Goldziher', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1935, 149-150. 159