Otto Folberth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Otto Folberth (born July 10, 1896 in Mediasch ; † November 5, 1991 in Salzburg ) was a Transylvanian-Saxon pedagogue, historian and publicist.

Life

Otto Folberth was the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school and participating in World War I , he studied German, Romance languages, philosophy, art history and theology in Budapest, Berlin, Heidelberg, Klausenburg and Paris. In 1922 he received his doctorate in philosophy. From 1923 he was a teacher in Medias. During World War II he was a captain and war correspondent for the Romanian army.

Folberth was head of department in the “Research Institute of the German Ethnic Group in Romania” and director of the affiliated press organ “German Research in the Southeast”. In 1944 he toured with the lecture "Transylvania in the onslaught of Asia". In 1944 he was interned in Caracal . After escaping, he settled in Salzburg.

He is the father of Otto Gert Folberth .

plant

He is known as a connoisseur of Stephan Ludwig Roth .

  • Storming and stranding. A Stephan Ludwig Roth book .
  • Love letters from Stephan Ludwig Roth . 1924.
  • "Collected Writings and Letters" St. L. Roths
  • The Stephan Ludwig Roth trial. A chapter in the history of nationalities in Southeast Europe in the 19th century . Böhlau, Graz / Cologne 1959.

In addition, many contributions to the culture of Transylvania, such as:

  • Gothic in Transylvania. The master of the Medias Altar and his time . Schroll, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7031-0358-2
  • The hourglass. A novel about the expulsion and flight of the Transylvanian Saxons. Schiller Verlag, Bonn / Hermannstadt 2013, ISBN 3-944529-16-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Böhm , Klaus Popa : From NS-Volkstum- to expellee functionary. The founding members of the Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk München and the country teams of Germans from Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia . Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2014, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Folberth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian-Saxon pedagogue, historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Medias
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1991
Place of death Salzburg