Ludolf Malten

Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf Malten (born November 11, 1879 in Berlin , † February 14, 1969 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist and religious scholar .

Life

The son of a businessman passed his A-levels at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1898 and then studied in Berlin with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In 1904 Malten received his doctorate with a thesis on Cyrene . In 1905 he passed the first state examination for higher education and completed his seminar year at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin. He then worked as a senior teacher at a grammar school in Wilmersdorf from 1907. In 1915 he was second on a list of appointments at the University of Kiel for a Graecist chair ( Werner Jaeger was appointed ).

In 1919 Malten became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg , and a full professor the following year. In 1922 he moved to the University of Breslau , where he stayed until the end of World War II. From 1924 to 1945 he was managing director of the University Association of Breslau, which his colleague Alfred Gercke had founded in 1921.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Malten served as dean of the Philosophical Faculty for five years. He supported the "Eastern Program" worked out by the historian Hermann Aubin to raise the profile of the university in the National Socialist sense, but did not join any party affiliated group.

After fleeing from Breslau (1945), Malten went to the University of Göttingen , where he continued to teach until his retirement in 1958, initially as a professor with a teaching position and later as a personal professor.

Malten's research focus was the ancient history of religion and mythology. He was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute , in whose journals he published numerous articles, and co-editor of the small writings of his teacher Wilamowitz.

Fonts

• Cyrenarum origines. Cap. 1 . Schade, Berlin 1904 (dissertation University of Berlin).
• Cyrene. Legendary and historical investigations . Weidmann, Berlin 1911.
• Ten years at the University of Wroclaw (1921–1931) . Wroclaw Cooperative Book Printing Company, Wroclaw 1931.
• The second decade of the University of Wroclaw (1931–1941) . Wroclaw 1941.
• The language of the human face in early Greece . de Gruyter, Berlin 1961.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966 . [Vol. 1.] de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, pp. 1507-1508.
• Wolfhart Unte : The work of Ludolf Maltens . In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . Vol. 21 (1980). Pp. 319-336. Reprinted in: ders .: Heroes and Epigones. Scholars' biographies of classical antiquity in the 19th and 20th centuries . Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen 2003, ISBN 3-89590-134-2 , pp. 399-419.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludolf Malten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludolf Malten's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Remarks

1. ↑ Who is who . Arani, Berlin 1967, vol. 1, p. 1215.
2. ↑ Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic" . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, p. 46. Ibid. On p. 187 he is accidentally referred to as a student of Werner Jaeger , who actually did not receive his doctorate until 1911 and did not come to Berlin as a professor until 1921.
3. ^ William Musgrave Calder: Men in their books. Studies in the modern history of classical scholarship . Olms, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3487106868 , p. 208.
4. ↑ Stefan Rebenich, review by Wolfhart Unte: Heroen and Epigonen . In: sehepunkte 5 (2005), No. 11 (from November 15, 2005)
5. ^ Ingo Haar : Historians in National Socialism. German history and the “national struggle” in the east . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35942-X , pp. 154 and 160.
6. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1950 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1950, column 1279.