Orphic Fragments (1922) - Page 12

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Finally, I offer the greatest possible thanks both to ERNST VOLLERT, a most honorable and friendly bookseller, and to the society founded under the leadership and auspices of FRIEDRICH SCHMIDT-OTT for the relief of German scholarship original Latin: ad sublevandas Germanorum litteras. This refers to the "Emergency Association of German Science," established to support research during the hyperinflation of the 1920s, which provided a most generous grant so that these fragments of the Orphic tradition Orphica; the religious and philosophical writings attributed to the mythical poet Orpheus might be committed to print. Let whoever uses this book know that all these men have deserved the very best regarding the study of Orphic matters.

At Halle in Saxony Halis Saxonum; the Latin name for the university city of Halle an der Saale, on the first of July, 1922.

OTTO KERN.

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