Paul Theodor Hoffmann

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Paul Theodor Hoffmann (born January 26, 1891 in Putlitz , † July 5, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German writer , archivist and theater scholar .

Life

Hoffmann studied in Munich , Grenoble , Berlin and Tübingen . In Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1915 with his dissertation The Indian and the German Spirit from Herder to Romanticism . In the years 1916–1918 he worked as editor of the magazine Der Kunstwart in Dresden. 1918–1921 he was the features editor and theater critic for the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten , then 1921–1926 for the Hamburger Anzeiger . He initially lived in Dresden , where he had been a member of the Schopenhauer Society from 1919 and worked with Franz Mockrauer . He then moved to Hamburg in 1923, where he founded a local branch of the society. Between 1926 and 1933 he worked as a city ​​archivist in Altona and then headed the city's office for science, art and popular education in Hamburg. He was promoted to the Archives Council in 1937. From 1940 he took up the position of director of the Städtische Theatersammlung Hamburg (which was located in the old town hall Altona ) and from 1941 was director of the theater studies institute at the University of Hamburg , where he received a teaching post from 1944. In Hamburg he was in correspondence with Erich Less . From 1929 to 1937 he appeared as editor of the Altonaische Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde . He also published the Hamburg Yearbook for Theater and Music from 1941 to 1951 .

His estate is in the Hamburg State Archives , his extensive correspondence with Mockrauer in Frankfurt am Main .

Publications (selection)

  • Medieval man. (1922)
  • The wisdom of the Vedas. (Ed., 1925)
  • The development of the Altona city theater. (1925)
  • The divine, a collection of religious voices from peoples and times. (1925)
  • Buddha's speeches, his life and his teaching. (1925)
  • God in the Orient and Occident. (1927)
  • The Seeker's Visions (1927)
  • Shakespeare, Complete Works (Ed., 1927–1929)
  • The life of Albrecht Dürer. (1928)
  • The Indian Secret Doctrines or Upanishads (1928)
  • New Altona 1919–1929. (2 volumes, 1929)
  • Blood and race in German poetry and thinkers, a selection. (1934)
  • The world before God. (1936)
  • The Elbchaussee. (1937, extended 1949)
  • The Elbe. Current of German destiny and German culture. (1939)
  • The Scholz-Forni and their relatives, history of a German-Italian family. (1941)
  • Theater and Drama in the German Spiritual Fate. (1948)
  • With the pointer of the world clock, pictures and memories. (1949)

literature

  • Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg (ed.): German literature 1945–1965: case studies on institutions, discourses, people Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1997, p. 379.
  • Elija Horn: India as Educator: Orientalism in German Reform Education and the Youth Movement 1918–1933. (Dissertation), Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn, 2018, p. 166.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Paul Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist, writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Putlitz
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1952
Place of death Hamburg