The Papers of Karl R. Popper

The Karl Popper-Library holds a complete copy of the Nachlass of Karl Popper, which is housed at the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford (California). The papers are indexed by the catalogue Sir Karl Popper. A Register of his Papers in the Hoover Institution Archives. This catalogue is available also in hard copy.

The two sections of the papers are kept in 460 boxes (files of hard copies) and - the incremental material - on 91 reels of microfilm. The order is as given by the Hoover Institution Archives:

Papers (hard copies):

1 - 254, 459 - 460

Speeches, Lectures, Articles

1928 - 1986

255 - 365, 460

Correspondence

1932 - 1987

366 - 382

Course material

1937 - 1970

383 - 394

Various papers

1945 - 1985

395 - 407, 460

Biographical files

1936 - 1985

408 - 458, 460

Writings by others

 

1896 - 1985

Incremental Material (Microfilms and PDF-a*):

Speeches, Lectures, Articles

1933 - 1998

Correspondence

1932 - 1995

568 - 573

Biographical files

1936 - 1994

573 - 581

Writings by others

1946 - 1993

*) The digitization of the Incremental Material in the Karl Popper Library has been made possible by a generous grant from the Karl Popper Charitable Trust. For copyright reasons access to these PDF-a-Files is limited to visitors on site. Information is abailable from Mag.a Nicole Sager, E-Mail: nicole.sager(at)uni-klu.ac.at.