DOCS.
428,
429
JANUARY
1918 437
Institute involves
quite a large
amount of
correspondence;[8]
even so,
my
corre-
spondence
is
steadily
on
the
rise.
I
am
having very pleasant
scientific
exchanges;
in
short, I
am
doing fine.[9]
In
the
fall,
Carathéodory,
a
mathematician
from
Göttingen,
is
coming
to
the
local
university.[10]
I
am looking
forward
to
him
very
much.
Anna’s[11]
letters
are a
delight
to
me;
for
it
is
almost
the
only
way
I
hear
about
the
boys.
You
see,
Albert
is
no
letter
writer before
the
Lord.[12] I
am
not
saying
this
to
complain
about
him,
though.
The
little that
he
does write is
altogether
nice. I’ll stop
now,
because
writing
in
bed is
so
uncomfortable.
Affectionate
regards
to
all
of
you, yours,
Albert.
429. To Roland von Eötvös
Schöneberg, Berlin, 5
Haberland
St., 5
January 1918
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,
With the death
of
Prof.
Helmert,[1]
the
director’s
position
at
the Potsdam
Geodetic
Institute
has become vacant. The
Academy,
the
University,
and Min-
istry
are
thus
left with
the
responsible
task
of
looking
for
a successor.
Various
colleagues
have
now
asked
me
to collect
opinions
from
impartial
experts
in
the
field.[2]
It
seems
to
me
that
you, highly
esteemed
colleague,
are
the
only one on
whose
opinion
we
ought
to
assign weight
in this
matter; I
therefore ask
that
you
send
us
your
counsel.[3]
Without
wanting
to
anticipate
your
comments in
the
least,
I
request
that
in
your
letter
you please
also devote
some
words
to
Messrs.
Schumann
(Vienna)[4]
Wiechert
(Göttingen)[5]
Krüger[6]
Kohlschütter[7]
}(Potsdam)
Schweydar[8]
because these
men
have
already
been
brought to
the attention
of
the authorities.
Comments
about the
importance
to science of
each
of the
last three
gentlemen
listed would be desirable
also in
the
event
that
they
do not
come
into consideration
for the
filling
of
the
position,
when
compared
to the first
two.
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