Adolf Bartels

Bartels, Adolf (Wesselburen, 1862-1945, Weimar), a prolific historian of literature, was for a short time a journalist, after which he established himself in Weimar, where he founded the Deutscher Schillerbund in 1907. His histories of literature include Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, 1901-2, and Einführung in die Weltliteratur, 1912-13; he also compiled a bibliographical handbook (Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, 1906) and a lavishly illustrated historical study of the German peasant (Der Bauer in der deutschen Vergangenheit, 1900). He wrote historical novels (of which Die Dithmarscher, 1898, is the best known), the play Martin Luther (1903), and numerous poems. He was a tireless publicist, propagating his strongly nationalistic and violently anti-Semitic opinions. He was, as might be expected, an ardent advocate of Heimatkunst and came into his own under the National Socialists (see NSDAP).

Adolf Bartels

Adolf Bartels (15 November 1862 – 7 March 1945) was a German journalist and poet. Known for his völkisch worldview, he has been seen as a harbinger of National Socialist anti-Semitism.^{[citation needed]}

Bartels was born at Wesselburen, in Holstein, and educated at Leipzig and Berlin.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetic and dramatic works 1.2 Criticism and literary history 2 Bibliography

Works

Poetic and dramatic works

• Gedichte (1889)
• Dichterleben (1890)
• Aus der meerumschlungenen Heimat (1895)
• Der dumme Teufel, a mock epic (1896)
• Martin Luther, a trilogy (1903)

Criticism and literary history

• Friedrich Gessler (1892)
• Die deutsche Dichtubg der Gegenwart (1897)
• Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur (two volumes, 1901-02)
• Adolf Stern (1905)
• Heinrich Heine (1906)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1906)
• Deutscher Litteratur Einsichten und Aussichten (1907)
• Deutsches Schrifttum (1911)

Bibliography

• Fuller, Steven Nyole. Nazis' Literary Grandfather: Adolf Bartels and Cultural Extremism, 1871-1945, Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1996 (ISBN 0-8204-2329-7).
• Rees, Philip. Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1991, (ISBN 0-13-089301-3).

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