Max Nettlau

Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (German: [ˈnɛtlaʊ]; 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 anschluss 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.

Max Nettlau

In the 1890s realising that a generation of socialist and anarchist militants from the mid-19th century was dying 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.[1] 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.[2]

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Notes

  1. Nettlau, Max. Max Nettlau Papers. Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  2. "Max Nettlau (1865-1944)". International Institute of Social History. 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  3. Nursey-Bray 1992, p. 256.
  4. Tuckermann, W. (1929). "Review of Élisée Reclus, Anarchist und Gelehrter. "Der Syndikalist'". Geographische Zeitschrift. 35 (4/5): 298–299. ISSN 0016-7479. JSTOR 27812710.
  5. Nursey-Bray 1992, p. 5.

Works cited

  • Nursey-Bray, Paul F, ed. (1992). Anarchist Thinkers and Thought: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27592-0. OCLC 24667588.

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