The College recently announced that the family of former Dartmouth professor and philospher Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy will present his papers and scholarly work to Baker Library.
After negotiating for the past few years, all the social philosopher's works were collected in one place and an agreement was reached, Special Collections Librarian Philip Cronenwett said.
The family will present the paper and recordings of lectures to College President James Freedman on Aug. 8 in Special Collection's Treasure Room at 11 a.m.
Rosenstock-Huessy, a member of Dartmouth's faculty for 22 years, was involved in the planning of the predecessor of the Peace Corps. He espoused volunteerism and studied Christianity and Christian humanism, Cronenwett said.
Rosenstock-Huessey died in Feb. 1973 at the age of 84.
Cronenwett said there has been a re-emergence of interest in Rosenstock-Huessy's writings and views in the past decade.
He said the assembly of his work in one place will facilitate research.
"We chose Baker because of the kind of his backgound," said Rosenstock-Huessy's grandson Mark Huessy in a telephone interview from his home in Jericho, Vt.
"My grandpa was always impressed by Baker Library. He loved going into open stacks … It was absolutely a natural place to put his work from his point of view."
Huessy said his grandfather was profoundly affected by World War I and "found that the scholary tools no longer were able to deal with the current situation they faced."
He added that Rosenstock-Huessy began dealing with "the underlying problems of the war and he found a series of high-water marks" that indicated a cyclical nature of history.
After immigrating to the United States from Germany and teaching at Harvard University, Rosenstock-Huessy taught at Dartmouth.
Huessy said his grandfather was "convinced that you couldn't fight wars any more" like World War I and found that direct personal contact with those who did not have a job could overcome class antagonism.
He added that through volunteerism, "people could overcome a major barrier and prevent the kind of disagreements that lead to war."
Rosenstock-Huessy, a supporter of William James' theory on volunteerism, founded Camp William James in Sharon, Vt. where the Cvilian Conservation Corps trained in the 1930s, according to a press release.
He later created the predecessor to the Peace Corps in 1940 at the invitation of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, the press release said.
Huessy said the transfer was delayed by the transcriptions lecture recordings and the assembly of all of his work which was scattered around the country and the globe.
He added that there are more than 7,000 pages of his grandfather's lecture notes.
