Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche

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Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche

Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche ( Russian Влади́мир Макси́мович Фри́че ; born November 8, 1870 in Moscow ; died September 4, 1929 there ) was a Russian literary and art scholar.

Born into a German family, he graduated from the German grammar school in Moscow in 1889. He studied at the History-Philological Faculty of Moscow University , after which he worked there at the Chair of General Literature.

From 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the literary lecturers 'group of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (RSDLP). In 1914 he was the founder of the magazine Žurnalist (journalist) and its first editor-in-chief. In 1924 he became director of the Russian Language Institute of the Association of Social Science Research Institutes and head of the literature department of the Institute of the Red Professorship and the Literature Section of the Communist Academy . In the last year of his life he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Literatura i marksizm (Literature and Marxism) and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

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