Max Kiessling

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Max Kiessling

Max Hermann Kiessling (born September 16, 1877 in Neuschönefeld near Leipzig , † March 28, 1946 in Munich ) was a German historical geographer .

Life

Max Kiessling was born as the son of the landowner Hermann Kiessling and attended high school in Leipzig. Since the summer semester of 1897 he studied at the University of Leipzig , first classical philology , then ancient history and historical geography as well as Iranian philology. In Leipzig he became a student of the historical geographer Wilhelm Sieglin , whom he followed to the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1899 . Here he also became Sieglin's assistant at the newly founded seminar for historical geography. In 1900 he was at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on Darius I graduated. For 1903/04 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He then worked again as an assistant at the University of Berlin and continued working on the atlas antiquus begun by his teacher Sieglin . He wrote over two hundred articles for the realcyclopedia of classical antiquity .

Ilse Kiessling with son in Fiesole near Florence

After the end of his assistantship in Berlin, Kiessling moved to Italy. On December 7, 1910, he married Elisabeth Maria Katharina geb. Ostermaier, the divorced wife of Wilhelm Filchner . The couple lived in Fiesole for some time . After the outbreak of the First World War and Italy entered the war on the side of the Entente in 1915, the Kiessling family was interned for a time and later expelled from Italy. Traveled over Nuremberg to Munich , where Kiessling until his death lived as a private scholar.

Publications (selection)

  • On the history of the first years of Darius Hystaspes' reign. Avenarius, Leipzig 1900 (dissertation, University of Leipzig 1900; digitized ).
  • The Ethnic Problem of Ancient Greece. In: Journal of Ethnology . Vol. 37, 1905, pp. 1009-1024 ( digitized version ).
  • Studies on the Geography of the Odyssey. In: Geographical Journal . Vol. 12, 1906, pp. 340-343 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Max Kiessling  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death entered and confirmed by Anselm Kiessling, November 12, 2014.
  2. ^ Announcements from Anselm Kiessling, February 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiessling, Max Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historical geographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuschönefeld near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1946
Place of death Munich