Wolfgang Benndorf

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Wolfgang Benndorf (born May 21, 1901 in Vienna , † April 27, 1959 in Graz ) was director of the Graz University Library .

Wolfgang Benndorf is the son of the physicist Hans Benndorf (1870–1953). He studied philosophy and history in Graz , Munich and Bonn and received his doctorate in Graz in 1924. From 1926 to 1934 he was employed at the study library in Klagenfurt and then until 1938 at the Graz University Library. As a well-known opponent of National Socialism , he was dismissed after the Anschluss at the instigation of the NS Student Union. Moreover, he was forbidden from making public statements in writing. In 1945 he returned to Graz University Library as director and held this position until his retirement in 1953.

Benndorf published poems and translations under the pseudonym Peter Welf .

literature

  • Hans Giebisch , Gustav Gugitz : Bio-bibliographical literature dictionary of Austria. From the beginning to the present . Hollinek, Vienna 1964, p. 24.
  • Kurt Reichel: Lexicon of personalities and companies. Leykam-Verlag, Graz 1955.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Unprinted PhD dissertation from May 12, 1925: Contributions to the aesthetics of tragedy.
  2. ^ Peter Welf (di: Wolfgang Benndorf): Poems. Leon, Klagenfurt 1933.
  3. ^ François Villon: The great testament. German translation by Peter Welf (di: Wolfgang Benndorf). Sussmann, Vienna 1937 (Also: translated into German and introduced by Wolfgang Benndorf. Löcker, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85409-355-1 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Benndorf, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welf, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1959
Place of death Graz