Wilhelm Barth (editor)

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Wilhelm Maria Barth (born April 9, 1856 in Meschede ; † February 26, 1940 in Neu-Phaleron, Greece ) was a German bookseller and editor who had lived in Greece since 1882. He was particularly well-known as the editor of the Greek Conservation Lexicon and was considered the best expert on Germanness in Greece.

Life

He was the son of Chief Medical Officer Josef Barth and his wife Franziska. After attending the grammar school in Emmerich, he studied at the University of Athens. As a bookseller he had his apprenticeship with Rudolf Barth in Aachen. In 1877 he went to Trieste as an assistant and in 1878 to Vienna, where he lived until 1880. Then he moved to Leipzig, where he was managing director of a bookstore until 1882. In 1882 he moved to Greece. There, together with Heinrich Beck, he took over the former Wilberg'sche bookstore, from which the later bookstore Eleftheroudakis in Athens emerged. He also founded his own publishing house in Athens in 1888. In addition, he pursued studies at the University of Athens and received his doctorate there in 1901 to Dr. phil.

Wilhelm Barth also worked as a translator from Greek into German. His main topic was the exploration of Germanness in Greece. He was also a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Greek Archaeological Society in Athens.

Works (selection)

  • Modern Greek , Berlin-Schöneberg, 1896.
  • Lesson letters for self-study of the Modern Greek language , Berlin-Schöneberg, 1897.
  • The Athens National Museum , Athens: Beck & Barth, 1908.
  • History of the German Society of Philadelphia in Athens , 1936.
  • German Life and Work in Greece , Vol. 1–4.

family

On July 7, 1885, he married Lucia Pedrazzi, daughter of the Austrian major Eugen Pedrazzi, in Vienna .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Kehrig-Korn: Germans in Greece , in: Blätter des Bayerischen Landesverein für Familienkunde 18 (1940), Heft 2, p. 21.
  2. ^ German bookstores in Athens
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Wilhelm Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Meschede
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1940
Place of death New Phaleron, Greece