Max Freiherr von Waldberg

Max Freiherr von Wald Berg ( born January 1, 1858 in Iasi (Romania); † November 6, 1938 in Heidelberg ) was a German language and literature scholars.

Mountain forest studied since 1877 in Vienna, Czernowitz and Berlin. At the University of Czernowitz in 1881 he received his doctorate. He habilitated in 1884. 1888 he became associate professor in Czernowitz, then followed but in 1889 an appointment as associate professor at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Since 1908 he was honorary professor there.

His students included the future Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Because of his Jewish ancestry was transferred from Forest Mountain on April 12, 1933 according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service retirement. In 1935, the teaching license was revoked.

Max Freiherr von forest mountain rests on the Heidelberg hill cemetery in the (Division D)

Writings

• Studies on Lessing's style in the Hamburg Dramaturgy. Berlin 1882 ( Zugl. Diss University of Czernowitz, 1881).
• The German Renaissance poetry. Berlin, 1888.
• Goethe and the folk song. Berlin 1889.
• The sentimental novel in France. Part I: The beginnings to the beginning of the eighteenth. Century. Strasbourg / Berlin 1906.
• Studies and sources on the history of the novel. Volume I: On the Development of the "beautiful soul " with the Spanish mystics. Berlin 1910.