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The Joseph Regenstein Library (colloquially, the Reg) is the University of Chicago’s primary library, located on the University’s Hyde Park campus on the South Side of Chicago. Named after the industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Regenstein , it is one of the largest repositories of books in the world.
Joseph Regenstein (1889-1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory. [1] As head of Arvey Corp., Regenstein made many innovations in the paper, plastic and chemical fields.
Joseph Regenstein Jr. (4 November 1923 – 4 March 1999) was an American business leader and philanthropist who donated more than $105 million to various Chicago area institutions as President of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. The son of Joseph Regenstein, Regenstein served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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The Regenstein-Heimburg branch re-united the Regenstein and Blankenburg estates in 1343, under the rule of the most renowned Count Albert II (1310–49), who since the 1330s was frequently in dispute with the leaders of the surrounding estates like the Halberstadt bishops and the Abbesses of Quedlinburg; he was finally assassinated by the ...
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A characteristic of the fortress is the large number of cavernous rooms in the natural rock (one now houses an exhibition of archaeological finds from the castle site). Even the stables were hewn out of the rock. After 1758, the pastures and forests of the Regenstein went to the Prussian Amt of Westerhausen. From 1815 to 1945, following the ...