Karl Notzel

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Karl Nötzel (born August 30, 1870 in Moscow , † December 29, 1945 in Munich ) was a German-Russian writer and social philosopher of Protestant denomination.

Life

Karl Nötzel was born in Moscow to German parents. He graduated from high school in Wiesbaden in 1889 and studied at the universities in Munich and Freiburg. In 1893 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg i. Br. In chemistry . From 1893 to 1909 he ran his father's chemical factory in Moscow. In 1909 he moved to Munich and worked in leading positions in the chemical industry. During the First World War, Nötzel was an expert on Russia in the Prussian War Ministry from 1917 to 1918. After the war he lived as a private scholar and writer in Munich. In the 1920s he was chairman of the Association of German Writers in Bavaria . He later gave lectures at the community college.

Noetzel was best known as a translator of Russian writers such as Dostoyevsky , Gogol , Leskow , Solovyov , and Tolstoy . In 1919 Noetzel published only the second German translation of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamasoff . In 1921 he made the first German translation of Gogol's series of novels Mirgorod . For the second edition of the Lexicon Religion in Past and Present, he wrote the articles on Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Solovyoff, Russian literary history and Russian religious philosophy.

Fonts

Karl Nötzel has published more than 60 books, most of which focus on topics of Russian literary history.

  • The foundations of spiritual Russia . Attempt at a Psychology of Russian Spiritual Life (1917) read online
  • From dealing with Russians . Read Conversations with a Russian Friend (1921) online

literature

  • Heinrich Stammler: Karl Noetzel, August 30, 1870 - December 29, 1945. In: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe / NF , Vol. 4 (1956), ISSN  0021-4019 , pp. 227-229.
  • Heinrich Stammler: In memoriam Karl Noetzel, * August 30, 1870 in Moscow, † December 29, 1945 in Munich. In: Eastern Europe . Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens , Vol. 20 (1970), ISSN  0030-6428 , pp. 879f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Goldmann (ed.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 232 .
personal data
SURNAME Nötzel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian writer and social philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1945
Place of death Munich