Archive Else Margarete Barth

Brief overview

Title: Collection Else Margarete Barth

Number of the Collection: 034

Provenance: Else Margarete Barth (1928-2015)

Date: 1952-2015

Size: 2,5 m

Language (material): Multiple languages

Summary:

Academic archive of Else Margarete Barth (1928-2015), philosopher

Institution: University of Groningen Library

Depository: University of Groningen Library

Provenance and acquisition

Biography

Else Margarete Barth (3 August 1928, Strinda – 6 January 2015, Groningen) was a Norwegian philosopher. She was a professor of analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen. She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

She was professor in analytical philosophy at the University of Groningen, from 1977 till 1993. She made important contributions to empirical logic, study of argumentation and feminist philosophy.

In Norway she was best known for her study of Vidkun Quisling’s idiosyncratic ideology, “Universism”. The book on this topic was expanded and issued in English as “A Nazi Interior: Quisling’s Hidden Philosophy.

She died in Groningen in January 2015.

A selection of Prof. Barth’s publications:

• Evaluaties, Van Gorcum: Assen 1972.
• The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy, D. Reidel Publishing Company: Dordrecht 1974.
• De logica van de lidwoorden in de traditionele filosofie, Leiden UP : Leiden 1971.
• Perspektieven, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Groningen 1979.
• Argumentation. Approaches to Theory Formation (red.), John Benjamins: Amsterdam 1982 (with J. Martens).
• From Axiom to Dialogue, Walter de Gruyter: Berlijn 1982 (with Erik Krabbe).
• Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles, Walter de Gruyter: Berlijn 1986 (with Rob Wiche).
• From an empirical point of view. The empirical turn in logic, Communication & Cognition: [Gent], 1992 (with J. Vandormael and F. Vandamme).
• Logic and Political Culture (red.), North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam 1992 (with Erik Krabbe).
• Women Philosophers: A Bibliography of Books through 1990, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH 1992.
• Gud, det er meg: Vidkun Quisling som politisk filosof, Pax Forlag: Oslo 1996.
• A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy, Peter Lang: Frankfurt 2003.
• Feministische mannen: Nederland in de schaduw van Scandinavië, Eburon: Delft 2010 (with Henk Misset).

Acquisition

The collection was handed over to the University Library in 2020 by mediation of Prof. dr. Wouter Slob, Zuidlaren.

Future additions

No additions are expected.

Content and composition

The collection contains letters, handwritten and printed material, items concerning membership, an honorary doctorate and offprints.

Instructions for the user

Disclosure restrictions

The collection is available for research.

The publishing rights are owned by the University of Groningen Library.

Access

A inventory is available.

Instructions for citing

The collection should be referred to in this way:

• Collection: University of Groningen Library, Collection Else Margarete Barth.
• Separate items: Groningen, UL, Barth.

Requesting the collection

The collection can be requested through the Library Catalogue (Smartcat) or by sending an email to Special Collection Department.