Hellmuth von Maltzahn

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Hellmuth Wilhelm Hermann Friedrich Egolf Freiherr von Maltzahn (born March 4, 1900 in Neustrelitz ; † September 26, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Goethe researcher and museum director.

Life

Hellmuth von Maltzahn (no. 1130 of the gender census ) came from the so-called House Rottmannshagen of the widely ramified primal nobility of Maltzahn . He was born as the eldest of four sons of the officer Hellmuth Chlodwig Bruno Rudolf Carl Freiherr von Maltzahn (1862–1933; # 1121) and his wife Elisabeth, née. Arndt (1874-1942).

Maltzahn studied German at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1926. He was first curator of the Goethe National Museum in Weimar since 1947 archivist and curator of the Free German Bishopric and Goethe Museum in Frankfurt. From its founding in 1955 to 1965 he was the first director of the Goethe Museum ( Kippenberg Collection ) in Düsseldorf.

Since 1920 he was a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg .

Publications (selection)

  • The translation of Corneille's “Cid” by Gottfried Lange (Braunschweig 1699) . Dissertation Leipzig 1926.
  • Karl Ludwig von Knebel. Goethe's friend. Jena 1929.
  • (Ed.): Philipp Otto Runge's correspondence with Goethe . Goethe Society, Weimar 1940.

literature

  • Jörn Göres : Foreword. In: Yearbook of the Kippenberg Collection. NF 2, 1970, pp. 7-8.
  • Maltza (h) nscher Familienverein (ed.): The Maltza (h) n 1194–1945. The life path of an East German noble family. Cologne 1979, p. 355.
  • Christoph Freiherr von Maltzahn:  Maltza (h) n, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 740-743 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Last: Royal Prussian Major General a. D.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 865
personal data
SURNAME Maltzahn, Hellmuth from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maltzahn, Hellmuth Wilhelm Hermann Friedrich Egolf Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Goethe researcher and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1966
Place of death Dusseldorf