Max Nettlau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Max Nettlau

German anarchist and historian

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1865

Place of Birth: Neuwaldegg, Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1944

Profession: historian, biographer, philologist, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Max Nettlau

  • Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (German: ['n?tla?]; 30 April 1865 – 23 July 1944) was a German anarchist and historian.
  • Although born in Neuwaldegg (today part of Vienna) and raised in Vienna, he lived there until the annexation to Nazi Germany in 1938.
  • Max Nettlau retained his Prussian (later German) nationality throughout his life.
  • A student of the Welsh language he spent time in London where he joined the Socialist League and met William Morris.
  • While in London he met anarchists such as Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin whom he remained in contact with for the rest of his life.
  • He also helped to found Freedom Press for whom he wrote for many years. In the 1890s realising that a generation of socialist and anarchist militants from the mid-19th century was passing away and their archives of writings and correspondence being destroyed, he concentrated his effort and a recent modest inheritance from his father on acquiring and rescuing such collections from destruction.
  • He also made many interviews of veteran militants for posterity.
  • He wrote biographies of many famous anarchists, including Mikhail Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, and Errico Malatesta.
  • He also wrote a seven volume history of anarchism. His extensive collection or archives was sold to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in 1935.
  • He lived continuously in Amsterdam from 1938 where he worked on cataloging the archive for the Institute.
  • He died there suddenly from stomach cancer in 1944, without ever being harassed.

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