Eduard von der Hellen

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Eduard Johann Heinrich von der Hellen (born October 27, 1863 at Gut Wellen in Wellen , today municipality of Beverstedt , district of Cuxhaven ; † December 17, 1927 in Stuttgart ) was a German archivist and editor.

Birthplace: Gutshaus Von der Hellen in Nassen Strasse in Wellen

origin

His parents were Diedrich von der Hellen (1819-1892) and his wife Auguste, née Schwertfeger (* 1823).

Life

Von der Hellen was the archivist of the Goethe Archives (later the Goethe and Schiller Archives) in Weimar and a colleague of Rudolf Steiner there . In 1894 he moved to the Nietzsche Archive , which Friedrich Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche had just founded in Naumburg an der Saale . This led to a dispute with Steiner, who probably also had ambitions for Nietzsche's publication. After a few months, von der Hellen left the Nietzsche archive.

In 1900 he moved to Stuttgart. There he was literary advisor to Cotta publishing house until 1923. Von der Hellen was the main editor of the forty-volume anniversary edition of Goethe's works, which appeared between 1902 and 1912, and the sixteen-volume secular edition of Schiller's works in 1904 and 1905.

family

On April 25, 1889, he married Martha von Crüger (1863–1934), a daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant General Gustav von Crüger . The couple had several children:

  • Susanne (1890–1936) ⚭ 1916 Fritz Eberhardt
  • Dietrich (1892–1965) ⚭ 1929 NN

Works (as author)

Register (1912)
  • Goethe's contribution to Lavater's physiognomic fragments.
  • Wilhelm I. and Bismarck in their correspondence.
  • Heinrich von Plate. A privileged novel. Stuttgart and Berlin 1921.

Works (as editor), besides those mentioned in the text

  • (Ed.): The journal of Tiefurt. In: Writings of the Goethe Society, ed. by Bernhard Suphan, 7th volume, Weimar 1892.
  • (Ed.): Prince Bismarck's letters to his bride and wife. Stuttgart 1912.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1907. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 289.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1913. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1912, p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Hellen, Eduard von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellen , today Beverstedt
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1927
Place of death Stuttgart