| Code | DS/UK/769 |
| Dates | 11/09/1867-30/10/1958 |
| Person Name | Goetz; Walter Wilhelm (11/09/1867-30/10/1958); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Goetz |
| Forenames | Walter Wilhelm |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Historian; worked at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich (since 1901); Professor in Tübingen, Strassburg, Leipzig and Munich; Director of the Institut für Kultur- und Universalgeschichte in Leipzig (1915-1933); chairman of the Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft (1927-1949); chairman of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1946-1951); engaged in poltics, member of the DDP and member of the German Reichstag (1920-1928). |
| History | Studied history, history of art, law and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig (1886-90). |
| Source | Weigand, Wolf Volker, Walter Wilhelm Goetz 1867 – 1958. Eine biographische Studie über den Historiker, Politiker und Publizisten, Boppard: Boldt, 1992; Goetz, Walter, in ed. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, München: 1996, vol. 4, p. 71. |
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