Albrecht von Blumenthal

Albrecht von Blumenthal ( born August 10, 1889 in Staffelde in Uckermark, † March 28, 1945 in Marburg ) was a German philologist Classic.

Life

Albrecht von Blumenthal came from an old noble family of Brandenburg. He studied classical philology, partly as a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College ( Oxford) and was in the hall with dissertation Hellanicea 1913: PhD De Atlantiade. At the First World War, he took five years in part as a volunteer. In the second Battle of Champagne he fell into French captivity. After the war, went to the University of Jena and here habilitated in 1922. During these years he published research on Aeschylus, Archilochus and Hellanicus of Lesbos. He has also written articles since 1927 for the Realencyclopädie of classical archeology. In 1928 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Jena. In 1938 he was appointed by the University of Giessen for personal professor to represent the Chair of Rudolf Herzog. In 1940 he was appointed professor; In the same year he also joined the NSDAP.

In February 1945, Blumenthal fled before the advancing American army to Marburg and took there on March 28 with his wife 's life.

Albrecht von Blumenthal as part Woldemar Count Uxkull - Gyllenband the George circle, in which he also introduced the ancient scientist Alexander von Stauffenberg and his brothers Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.