Heinz Amelung

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Heinz Amelung (born June 6, 1880 in Hildesheim , † September 22, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar and chief editor .

Life

After attending grammar school in Hildesheim, Heinz Amelung studied at the University of Berlin with Erich Schmidt, among others, then at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and at the University of Göttingen . Amelung then worked as a private scholar and editor-in-chief of the weekly newsreel, later in this position, which is now equivalent to the editor-in-chief, at the gazebo , which has been called the new gazebo since 1938 . In addition, Heinz Amelung was head of the novel department at the August Scherl publishing house .

Heinz Amelung was a member of the Reich Association of the German Press and the PEN Club . He died of a stroke in 1940 at the age of 60 .

family

He had been married since 1914 to the writer Wanda Icus-Rothe nee Schonebohm, who came from a Protestant pastor's family and brought their daughter Else Bloem nee Icus-Rothe into the marriage.

Works (selection)

  • Correspondence between Clemens Brentano and Sophie Mereau. Based on the manuscripts in the Royal Library of Berlin , Berlin, 1908.
  • Hussar pranks. Heroic deeds from the Völkerringen 1914 , Munich, 1915.
  • German heroic sagas , Braunschweig, 1916.
  • (Ed.): Bismarck Words , Berlin, 1918.
  • Old Danish hero songs , 1919.
  • German speeches from five centuries , Berlin, 1924.
  • (Ed.): Adalbert Stifter , Selected Work, Volume 1, Leipzig, Schlueter & Co., 1927.
  • (Ed.): Adalbert Stifter , Selected Work, Volume 2, Leipzig, Schlueter & Co., 1927.
  • (Ed.): Adalbert Stifter , Selected Work, Volume 3, Leipzig, Schlueter & Co., 1927.
  • Goethe as a personality. Reports and Letters from Contemporaries , Volume 1 1749–1797, Berlin, 1925.
  • Goethe as a personality. Reports and Letters from Contemporaries , Volume 2 1797–1823, Berlin, 1925.
  • Goethe as a personality. Reports and Letters from Contemporaries , Volume 3, 1823–1832, Berlin, 1925.
  • Correspondence between Clemens Brentano and Sophie Mereau based on the manuscripts , Leipzig, 1939.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friede Henriette Kraze, Jürgen Dietrich: From Husum to Weimar , 2000, p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Amelung, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1940
Place of death Berlin