George Perrigo Conger papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2660

Scope and content

Documentation from George Conger's student days at Cornell (1903-1907); Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; Paris, France; and Berlin, Jena, and Marburg, Germany includes scrapbooks; letters from George L. Burr, Lane Cooper, Charles Ezra Cornell, Mary E. Cornell, Ralph Catterall, Charles E. Courtney, James Crafts, Edward E. Hale, Jane L. Hardy, W. T. Hewett, Nathaniel Schmidt, Albert W. Smith, Goldwin Smith, Charles M. Tyler, Glenn Warner, Andrew D. White, and Burt G. Wilder, primarily concerning Conger's editorship of the Cornell ERA; and notes from courses given by Karl F. Budde, Wing-Tsit Chan, Henri J. Delacroix, Emile Durkheim, Adolph von Harnack, Adolph Jüliche, George W. Knox, Gerhard Lehman, Eugene W. Lyman, Gaston S. Milhaud, William P. Montague, Edward B. Titchener, and Ernest Troeltsch. Professional papers include notes and outlines for philosophy and theology courses that he taught at the University of Minnesota (1920-1952) and Ohio Wesleyan (1952-1958); unpublished essays and notes, outlines, rough drafts, and galley proofs of THEORIES OF MACROCOSMS AND MICROCOSMS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, TOWARDS A UNIFICATION OF THE FAITHS, IDEOLOGIES OF RELIGION, A COURSE IN PHILOSOPHY, HORIZONS OF THOUGHT, WORLD OF EPITOMIZATIONS, and NEW VIEWS OF EVOLUTION; sermons, reviews, articles, and contributions to collective works; advertisements for philosophical publications in many countries;

Scope and content

and a letter from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and a photograph taken with him during Conger's visit to India in the 1930's.

Dates

1903-1960.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Presbyterian minister, philosopher, and professor. George Conger was born in Genoa, New York and raised in Groton, New York. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and held degrees from Cornell University (A.B. Class of 1907) and Union Theological Seminary. He attended a number of universities in Europe. He wrote several books on philosophy and was a specialist in comparative religion. He was particularly interested in Eastern religions and cultures, and visited Asian countries many times. Conger joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1920, and retired in 1952. After his retirement he taught at Ohio Wesleyan University and the University of Calcutta, India.