Fred Ottow

Gustav Ferdinand "Fred" Ottow (born November 3 ^{. Jul} / 15. November 1886 ^greg. In Tartu ; † 18th September 1969 in Munich ) was a journalist, writer and translator Baltic German origin.

Live and act

After attending school, Ottow studied first philology from 1906–1912, then law at the University of Dorpat , where he belonged to the Corporation Livonia . He then worked as a lawyer in Simferopol and from 1914–1918 as a notary at the Livonian Evangelical Lutheran Consistory in Riga . In 1918 he went to Germany as a journalist and was first editor-in-chief of the Greifswalder Zeitung and 1927–1934 of the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung , and from 1937 to 1942 the features editor of the Münchner Zeitung . Later he worked as a writer and above all as a translator, both of Estonian literature and especially of works of Russian classics ( Tolstoy , Dostoyevsky , Gogol , Leskov , Alexander Pushkin ).

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Islands of love. Novel. 232 pages. Paul Neff Verlag, Berlin 1936
The bridal trip to Petersburg. Novel. 245 pages. Eugen Händle Verlag, Mühlacker 1943
The guest at the stove. 12 stories from 4 centuries. 95 pages. Eugen Händle Verlag (series of narrators), Mühlacker 1943
The possessed king. Charles XII. of Sweden. 288 pages with illustrations. Willi Weismann Verlag, Munich 1947

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Fred Ottow. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Album Livonorum, ed. from the Philistine Association of Livonia, Lübeck 1972, No. 1191.
↑ Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. Vol. 3, Berlin-New York 2007, p. 1001 f.
↑ May Redlich: Lexicon of German Baltic Literature. A bibliography. Published by the Georg Dehio Society. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik Berend von Nottbeck, Cologne 1989. ISBN 3-8046-8717-2 , pp. 245–246

personal data
SURNAME	Ottow, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ottow, Gustav Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic publicist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH	18th September 1969
Place of death	Munich

[1] Album Livonorum, ed. from the Philistine Association of Livonia, Lübeck 1972, No. 1191.

[2] Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. Vol. 3, Berlin-New York 2007, p. 1001 f.

[3] May Redlich: Lexicon of German Baltic Literature. A bibliography. Published by the Georg Dehio Society. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik Berend von Nottbeck, Cologne 1989. ISBN 3-8046-8717-2 , pp. 245–246