Maximilian Ittenbach

Maximilian Ittenbach (born November 16, 1907 in Cologne-Nippes , † after 1944) was a German ancient Germanist and folklorist .

Life

Max Ittenbach received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1930. From 1933 he had a teaching position for ancient German and folklore at the Technical University in Danzig and from 1935 was a lecturer at the University of Teacher Training in Danzig and from 1937 lecturer, from 1939 to 1943 associate professor for German Philology and Folklore at the Technical University of Danzig. During the Second World War he was deployed in occupied Belgium, in 1941, among other things, he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Ghent and worked for the SS Research Association of German Ahnenerbe . In 1943 he was appointed full professor of ancient German and folklore at the University of Posen . He was later missing in the east and pronounced dead.

Publications

• Multiple legality. Studies in German folk song in Lorraine (Frankfurt am Main 1932, dissertation)
• German seals of the Salian Imperial Era and related monuments (Würzburg-Aumühle 1937)
• The early German minnesang. Stanzas and poetry (Halle 1939)
• The Nibelungenlied. Poetry and the shaping of fate (Brussels 1944)

literature

• Catalogus Professorum . In: Articles and documents on the history of the Gdansk University of Technology 1904-1945 . Hanover 1979, p. 140.