Gustav Berthold Volz

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Gustav Berthold Volz (born November 4, 1871 in Halle (Saale) , † September 27, 1938 ) was a German historian.

Volz was a student of Albert Naudé .

From 1899 he published 22 volumes of Frederick the Great's Political Correspondence . He also published documents on the Count of Saint Germain and works and letters from Frederick the Great in German translation, with Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1873–1936) often translating from French.

He had the title of professor and was Reich Archives Councilor in the Reich Archives in Berlin.

His son Hans Volz (1904–1978) was the editor of Martin Luther's works .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Warfare and Politics. King Frederick the Great in the first years of the Seven Years' War , Berlin 1896
  • Friedrich the Great and Trenck , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich the Great: Pictures from his time , Berlin: Hayn's heirs 1927
  • From the world of Frederick the Great , Dresden, C. Reißner 1922
  • Das Sans, Souci Friedrichs des Grossen , Leipzig, Koehler 1926
  • The Count of Saint-Germain. The life of an alchemist. Based on largely unpublished documents , Dresden: Aretz 1923, 1925 (document collection)

Editors' publications

  • Political correspondence of Frederick the Great , Berlin, Duncker, up to Volume 46, 1939
  • The works of Frederick the Great , 10 volumes, Berlin, Reimar Hobbing 1913–1914
  • with Ernst Berner: From the time of the Seven Years' War, diary sheets and letters from Princess Heinrich and the royal house , Berlin, Duncker 1908
  • Friedrich der Grosse and Wilhelmine von Bayreuth , Leipzig: Koehler 1924
  • Friedrich the Great in the Mirror of His Time , Berlin, 3 volumes, 1926/27
  • with Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski: The diary of Marchese Lucchesini (1780–1782); Conversations with Friedrich the Great , Munich: Hueber 1926
  • Prussian and Austrian Acts on the Prehistory of the Seven Years' War , Leipzig: Hirzel 1899
  • The memories of Princess Wilhelmine of Orange at the court of Frederick the Great (1751–1767) , Berlin 1903
  • Selected works by Frederick the Great , 2 volumes, 1910
  • with Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski: Conversations of Frederick the Great , Berlin 1919

Essays

  • Frederick the Great's plan to tear Prussia away from Germany , Historical Journal , Volume 72, 1920, pp. 267–277

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage for the edition
  2. ^ Trier University Library for the digital edition and the staff
personal data
SURNAME Volz, Gustav Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1938