David K. Probst Papers, 1960-1973
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Originally from Illinois, David Karl Probst studied at the University of Chicago and later at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He was awarded the Hertz Foundation Fellowship in the late 1960s. Probst studied the history of science, eventually completing a doctoral thesis titled “Francis Bacon and the Transformation of the Hermetic Tradition into the Rationalist Church” in 1972. He was in correspondence with a few major academics such as Karl Popper.
Collect consists primarily of correspondence between Probst and several figures, essays he collected and wrote, and his thesis. Of note is the letter Probst received from Saul Bellow. All correspondence from Karl Popper is contained in a separate folder, which includes related items as well.
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