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The Germanic Museum received a $200,000 endowment last week from Mrs. Edmee Buach Greenough. One of several gifts to the museum by Mrs. Greenough, it will be known as the Edmee Busch Greenough Endowment Fund.
Mrs. Grenough's first husband, Hugo Relsinnger, bequeathed funds to both the Germanic Museum and the College Library. Their son, Curt 11, Beisinger '12 recently gave $300,000 to the University for the establishment of the Samuel Budweiser Cross Professorship of Stavic Languages and Literature.
Charles L. Kuhn, associate professor of Fine Arts and Curator of the Germanic Museum, said when the gift was announced; "This gift from a member of a family which has done much for the University will give security and continuity to the work of the Germanic Museum and will enable...
The museum serves both the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures through its permanent collections and its temporary exhibitions.
The background of the building itself is probably the most obscure of all Harvard buildings. It was acquired by purchase in October, 1896 from the estate of one G. L. Whitman as part of the Germanic Museum parcel. Located on a plot covering 8,253 square feet, the building included...