Wolfgang von Oettingen

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Wolfgang von Oettingen (born March 13 . Jul / 25. March  1859 greg. In Dorpat , Livonia ; † 20th December 1943 in Bonn ) was a Baltic German art and literary historian .

family

He came from an old, originally from Westphalia originating noble family and was the son of Medicine professor Georg von Oettingen (1824-1916), Rector of the University of Tartu , and his first wife Marie von Seidlitz (1832-1903). His half-brother from his father's second marriage was Superintendent Herbert von Oettingen (1878-1946).

Oettingen married Caroline Wilmanns on June 24, 1887 in Berlin (* May 28, 1858 in Berlin; † 1941 at Reichenberg Castle in Reichenberg , Rhein-Lahn-Kreis ), the daughter of the Prussian building councilor Franz Wilmanns and Josephine Eickenbusch. The couple had three children, including Karljohann von Oettingen (* 1891, † 1953), gynecologist and professor in Heidelberg .

Life

He attended from 1872 the country Pforta in Naumburg, studied from 1878 in Strasbourg German and was there in 1882 with a thesis on George Greflinger doctorate . A close friend from the time in Schulpforta was the later Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg . He then studied art history in Strasbourg and Leipzig . From 1884 to 1886 he was a volunteer at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. In 1888 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg with a thesis on the Italian sculptor and architect Filarete for the subject of modern art history and then taught there as a private lecturer. From 1892 to 1897 he taught as a professor of art and literary history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1897 to 1905 he was the first permanent secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin . From 1905 to 1909 he lived as a private scholar at Reichenberg Castle near Sankt Goarshausen , which he had inherited from his aunt Charlotte Countess von Mellin in 1880 . In 1909 he became director of the Goethe National Museum in Weimar , and from 1911 he was also director of the Goethe and Schiller Archives .

In 1918 he resigned for health reasons, initially as head of the Goethe-Schiller-Archive and as a member of the executive committee of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, a short time later also as director of the Goethe National Museum. His successor in office was the Germanist Hans Wahl . He then privatized Reichenberg Castle. However, he was a member of the board of directors of the Goethe Society until 1932 and was made an honorary member when he left .

Publications (selection)

  • About Georg Greflinger von Regensburg as a poet, historian and translator. A literary historical investigation (= sources and research on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic peoples, Vol. 49). Strasbourg 1882 (dissertation).
  • The sculptor-architect Antonio Averlino called Filarete. An art history study . Habilitation thesis Marburg 1888 ( digitized version ).
  • About the life and works of Antonio Averlino, called Filarete. A study (= contributions to art history, volume 6). Leipzig 1888 ( digitized ).
  • Daniel Chodowiecki. An artist's life in Berlin in the eighteenth century . Berlin 1895.
  • The Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin 1696–1900 . Berlin 1900
  • From a quiet workshop. Nature u. Art, experienced and imagined . Leipzig 1908.
  • Goethe and Tischbein . Goethe Society, Weimar 1910.
  • with Anton Mayer : twenty drawings by old masters from Goethe's collection . Goethe Society, Weimar 1914.
  • The Weimar Goethe House and its furnishings . In: Yearbook of the Goethe Society 2, 1915, pp. 206–226.

literature

  • Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women . Leipzig 1905, Sp. 1057 ( digitized version ).
  • Yearbook of the Goethe Society 5, 1918, pp. 260 and 263; 6, 1918, p. 304; 18, 1932, p. 229.
  • Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. From 1527 to 1910 . Elwert, Marburg 1927, No. 884.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B Volume XII (= Volume 64 of the complete series). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1977, p. 366.
  • Jochen Klauß: Wolfgang von Oettingen and the Association of Friends of the Goethe House . In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 109, 1992, pp. 219–225.
  • Oettingen, Wolfgang von . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 7 : Menghin – Pötel . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , pp. 559 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the university parish in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu ülikooli kogudus)
personal data
SURNAME Oettingen, Wolfgang von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1943
Place of death Bonn