Martin Eduard Winkler

Martin Eduard Winkler (born December 23, 1893 in Leipzig ; † August 3, 1982 in Feldafing ) was a German historian , Russian researcher and icon collector.

Life

Winkler studied at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . He studied history , literature , art history and archeology at the University of Strasbourg and cultural history at the University of Leipzig . After the First World War, where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Wound Badge in matt white, he continued his studies in Classical Archeology and European History . He completed his habilitation in Russian history at the University of Königsberg . In 1924 he made his first trip to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 1929 he became professor of Eastern European history and director of the history department of the Russian Institute in Königsberg.

In 1934 he lost his position to the Nazis and was pushed to retire in 1939. He worked in his private library in Berlin until 1942 and completed the book series Russian Cultural History. He became a private collector for Russian icons , which he had to sell in 1955 for financial reasons to the city of Recklinghausen, which set up the Recklinghausen Icon Museum . The collection is one of the most important in Germany.

Winkler had been married to the journalist Nora von Beroldingen since 1932 , who died in 1953.

literature

• Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , pp. 456f. ( Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria 99).

Web links

• Biography of Martin Eduard Winkler
• About the establishment of the Icon Museum in Recklinghausen
• Publications by and about Martin Eduard Winkler at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 22.
2. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 22.