Max Pannwitz

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Max Pannwitz (born November 8, 1854 in Vetschau / Spreewald , † August 29, 1921 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer and translator.

Live and act

Prairie animals and their fates ; Stuttgart, 1921 by Ernest Thompson Seton

Pannwitz was the son of a senior pastor . Because he was supposed to become a doctor, he entered the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for military medical education in October 1874 . Because of his "aversion to medical studies" he was released there after less than three months in January 1875. He then studied philology and worked as a writer and editor in his home town of Stuttgart.

In addition to writing his own works, Max Pannwitz was particularly active as a translator and editor of literary works by Alexander Russel Bond , Alexandre Dumas , Ernest Thompson Seton , Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson . Pannwitz also translated the memoirs of a revolutionary by Pyotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin into the German language.

In addition, Max Pannwitz helped in 1905, when Budo was still largely unknown in Europe, to arouse interest in Japanese martial arts in German-speaking countries through his translation of a book on "methodical body steeling and athletic tricks" in Jiu Jitsu .

Works

  • German scouts of the 16th century in Africa, Asia and South America : Balthasar Springer's sea voyage 1505–06 / Hans Staden's true history 1547/48 and 1549–55 / Ulrich Schmidels true and lovely description 1534–52 / Leonhard Rauwolf's actual description 1573–76. Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung 1911
  • Old Fritz . Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag 1913
  • Great war heroes . Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag 1913
  • Marshal Forward and Prince Eugene . Stuttgart 1913
  • Siegismund Rüstig: A Robinsonade . Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag, 1929

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of life according to the Stuttgart memorial day calendar
  2. ↑ see also online 10th edition anno 1910  - Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Biographical information and quotation from Paul Wätzold: Stammliste of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for the military medical education. On behalf of the medical department of the Königl. Ministry of War using official sources. Berlin, Heidelberg 1910 (reprint 2013), ISBN 9783662344835 , p. 194
  4. ^ H. Irving Hancock: Dschiu-Dschitsu. The Source of Japanese Power; methodical body strengthening and athletic tricks of the Japanese . Authorized translation by Max Pannwitz. Stuttgart: Hoffmann 1905
personal data
SURNAME Pannwitz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Vetschau / Spreewald
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1921
Place of death Stuttgart