Walter Steinthal
Walter Steinthal (born November 27, 1887 in Dessau , † March 27, 1951 in San Francisco ) was a German-Jewish historian .
First a journalist - he was a student of Jacobsohn and Harden in Berlin at 12 Uhr Blatt - he emigrated to France in 1933. From June 1939 to April 1940 he stayed in Switzerland / Basel and then came to the USA, where he was lecturer for early Asian cultural history at Stanford University in California from 1940 to 1947.
He wrote a book about Dreyfus ( Dreyfus , Berlin 1930).
literature
- John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 777-778.
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century , Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Steinthal in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Archive Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 33530 ( [1] )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinthal, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1951 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |