Moritz Schiff

Moritz Schiff’s scientific books were donated in 1917 by his daughter in law, wife of Mario Schiff, a French professor at the Instituto di Studi Superiori in Florence who died in 1915. In the same year, the Instituto acquired the collection of the books and papers of Mario Schiff, which was united to his father’s collection. The two bequests, today kept in a single collection composed of 1,876 volumes from the 18th and 19th centuries, reflect the different interests of the two owners. These are, respectively, human anatomy, comparative anatomy, physiology, animal physics and zoology (Moritz S.), and Italian, French, Spanish and German literatures and philosophy (Mario S.). There is still the original inventory of the collection.

Bibliography: Guida ai fondi speciali delle biblioteche toscane, a cura di S. Di Majo, Firenze, DBA 1996².