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Entry Personal Name

Number of records used in: 1

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

control field: 19079

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

control field: 20200604172900.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

fixed length control field: 800328n| azannaabn |a aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

LC control number: n 80036697

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

System control number: (OCoLC)oca00418835

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

Original cataloging agency: DLC
Language of cataloging: eng
Description conventions: rda
Transcribing agency: DLC
Modifying agency: OCoLC
Modifying agency: NN
Modifying agency: HU

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

Birth date: 1904-11-22
Death date: 1976-11-10
Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

Personal name: Besterman, Theodore,
Dates associated with a name: 1904-1976

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

Place of birth: Łódź (Poland)
Place of death: Banbury (Oxfordshire, England)
Place of residence/headquarters: London (England)
Place of residence/headquarters: Geneva (Switzerland)
Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

Field of activity: Bibliography
Field of activity: Parapsychology
Field of activity: Publishers and publishing
Field of activity: Private presses
Field of activity: Learning and scholarship
Field of activity: Editing
Field of activity: Enlightenment
Field of activity: Eighteenth century
Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

Associated group: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Associated group: Guyon House Press
Associated group: Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery
Associated group: Army Bureau of Current Affairs
Associated group: Unesco
Associated group: Institut et musée Voltaire
Associated group: Voltaire Foundation
Associated group: Taylor Institution
Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

Occupation: Bibliographers
Occupation: Parapsychologists
Occupation: Publishers and publishing
Occupation: Scholars
Occupation: Editors
Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

Gender: Males
Source of term: lcdgt

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

Language code: eng

378 ## - FULLER FORM OF PERSONAL NAME

Fuller form of personal name: Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

Personal name: Besterman, Nataniel,
Dates associated with a name: 1904-1976

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

Personal name: Besterman, T. D. N.,
Dates associated with a name: 1904-1976

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

Personal name: Besterman, Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel,
Dates associated with a name: 1904-1976

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

Source citation: His Crystal-gazing ... 1924.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

Source citation: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, December 6, 2017
Information found: (Besterman, Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel (1904-1976), psychical researcher and bibliographer; born on 22 November 1904 in Łódź, Poland, and named Nataniel; probably grew up in Britain; largely self-educated, especially at British Museum Library; investigating officer to the Society for Psychical Research, 1927-1935, and published widely on associated matters; publications in bibliography, 1930s-1940s, including A world bibliography of bibliographies in 1939; established his own private press, the Guyon House Press, which was destroyed in the air raids of December 1940; in World War II, served in Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs; postwar, held position as head of the department for the exchange of information in UNESCO. "Around 1950 he turned to publishing the correspondence and works of Voltaire ... Living, by agreement with the city of Geneva, in Voltaire's former house Les Délices, he founded the Institut et musée Voltaire there (1952), while editing that writer's correspondence (107 vols., 1953-65) as well as the equally multi-volume series Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century ... Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities he moved in the later 1960s, first to London and then to Banbury, where he died ... on 10 November 1976, having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests (the Voltaire Foundation) to the Taylor Institution there")

942 ## - KOHA INTERNAL USE

Koha auth type: PERSO_NAME