Archäologe Ferdinand Noack (1865-1931): 4 Letters Berlin 1920/21 An Ruth

They bid on four autographed, signed letters of Classical archaeologists Ferdinand Noack (1865-1931).

DatedBerlin 1920/21.

Each with the original envelope. The first envelope with the sender information "Noack, Berlin W 10, Tiergartenstr. 18 E." -- Ferdinand Noack is listed at this address in the Berlin address book.

Aimed at Ruth Forssner, b. Minor (1886-1969) in Stockholm, daughter of the Swedish banker Victor Moll (1858-1929), president of the Swedish Reichsbank from 1912, and widow of the Swedish physician Gunnar Hjalmar Forssner (1876-1915). In 1922, she married the Swedish lawyer and judicial councilor Axel Edelstam (1873-1943). Their son was the zoologist Carl Edelstam (1924-2016).

Since Noack signs a letter "Your former foster father", Ruth was a foster daughter of his.

1.) 2-page letter (22.8 x 17.8 cm), dated Berlin, 6. August 1920. Forwarded to Dalarö.

Excerpts: "My dear little baby! I don't want to say again how nice it was to have you with us again. [...] But all this time there was always something going on here that took me out of my quiet tranquility and it's good that I can go to Upper Hesse next Thursday when Moritz replaces me here. My wife is meeting me there for her birthday on the 15th. and stay with us for another week. But the silver wedding anniversary on the 31st. We will hardly be able to celebrate August together anymore. It's not the right thing after all, because that includes the two main results of this marriage, which are partly here and partly in Lapland. But I would like to give Ulrich a little joy on this day, so if I send you another book, please send it to your father so that he can give it to him on the 31st. August handed over. That means I might as well send it directly to Father Moll!"

Note: Ferdinand Noack had Else Hartleben, sister of the poet Otto Erich Hartleben (1864-1905), on December 31st. Married August 1895. The "main results" of the marriage mean his two sons, Moritz Noack and the historian Ulrich Noack (1899-1974). -- The second part of the letter about the Pallat family (Noack's wife was the sister of the wife of the archaeologist Ludwig Pallat), among other things about the resistance fighter Rosemarie Reichwein, née. Pallat (1904-2002): "[...] in the spring Rosemarie goes to the housekeeping school for a long time and then would be the best moment for Mari[ianne's] return home."

Signed"With warmest regards, your old Ferdinand Noack."

2.) 2-page letter (20.8 x 13.3 cm), dated Berlin, 15. December 1920.

Excerpts:"I'm sending you many good Christmas wishes for yourself and your youth and I imagine you'll all be happy around the Christmas tree with all sorts of cheerful Julklap. We are barely held together through the festival, then the family falls apart, Ulrich, invited, goes [...] for a short time to some high place in the Giant Mountains or Bavaria and Moritz takes part in Eleonie's wedding in Braunschweig and that's it invited to Kiel to visit old friends. Of course there is a friendin in the game, which, as far as can be seen, leaves him untouched and which we do not want as a permanent possession for him or ourselves. [...] WAs I write, the enticing sounds of a gramophone come from the hall, to the accompaniment of which Ulrich is learning Foxtrot and Boston from a little Baltic dance teacher!! So now it's over for today and 1000 greetings from Allen us, the old gentleman first! This faithful former foster father of yours!"

3.) 2-page, small letter (11.8 x 17.3 cm), dated Berlin, 17. February 1921.

Excerpts: "I fell into a frenzy of mind-numbing work and homelessness, that's pretty much how it goes. M.l. Plasters always give me new joy because when I set them up, I get all sorts of new things that I didn't know before, and I get better exposure and cheaper installations. - Nothing further can be said about Athens for the time being. [...] I'm now hurrying to dinner with the young Lehmann-Hartlebens, the uncle (who is supposed to become godfather in the fall!) is to be honored! So only a little for this time. Warmest regards as always, your old FN"

4.) 2-page letter (20.8 x 16.3 cm), dated Berlin, the 22nd February 1921.

Excerpts:"Dear little molly! Your l. Letter was very refreshing and enjoyable. Ulrich is also doing much better now [...]. Athens{?} is still up in the air, as the previous colleague has only been asked whether he would still be there at the end. I want to stay for the summer (which I don't think is necessary!), because the more you think about it, the more terrible a time like this in A. and Greece seems. You have to accept the downsides and overcome them. [...] Would you like to note this address for a next shipment: Mr. Heinrich Hengstenberg, Milan, via Porpora 80. - I carry on like this, the casts that have started rolling don't give me much to relax, as the new position always has to be considered and tried out for everyone. The picture that you create in your mind beforehand is not always correct if d. Cast then on the relevant one. The place is set and the plan has to be varied so and so often. You always see and learn something and, above all, I have a terrible desire for new casts from Athens and am looking for Maecene for them. [...] Where are we taking our leaky German ship now? Should it become a total wreck? I can't believe it. But the next time will be difficult for us and terribly critical. May your father be right that such crazy plans, forged out of hatred and greed and fear of competition, cannot stand! Good night. Kind regards, yours. F. Noack."

Envelope format: 9.5x11.8cm.

Condition:Good condition; Envelopes slightly stained. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Corner 23-10 Autograph Autograph Science

About Ferdinand Noack and his son Ulrich Noack (source: wikipedia):

Ludwig Conrad Georg August Theodor Ferdinand Noack (*31. December 1865 in Holzhausen; † 21. September 1931 in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life and work: Ferdinand Noack attended high school in Darmstadt and, after graduating (Easter 1885), went to the University of Geneva, where he deepened his knowledge of French. In the winter semester of 1885/86 he moved to the University of Berlin, where he studied classical philology, classical archeology and history with Ernst Curtius, Hermann Diels and Carl Robert. Noack spent the winter semester of 1887/88 at the University of Göttingen as a guest student with Hermann Sauppe and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. In the summer semester of 1888, Noack moved to a university in his hometown of Hesse to complete his studies: the University of Giessen. He passed his teaching qualification there in the fall of 1889 and then returned to Göttingen to deepen his studies. There he wrote his dissertation on the representation of the Troy legend by Euripides and Polygnotos, with which he received his doctorate in 1890 at the University of Giessen (with Adolf Philippi). phil. received a doctorate.

Through his studies, Noack was recognized as both a philologist and an archaeologist. This combination of ancient science disciplines corresponded to the ideal of his academic teachers. For the year 1891/92, Noack received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute, which enabled him to stay in Italy and Greece for a longer period of time. He continued his studies in Greece even after the scholarship expired and in 1893 examined Mycenaean settlements in the Kopaïs Basin.

After his return from Greece, Noack worked as an assistant teacher in Darmstadt from 1894. His goal was an academic career: he continued his archaeological studies, including at the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt. In 1897 he completed his habilitation in classical art archeology at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1898 he was appointed head of the excavations in Alexandria, which Ernst von Sieglin financed. However, Noack left the expedition after just one year when he was appointed associate professor and head of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Jena in 1899. From 1900 onwards, Noack systematically expanded the original collection there through new acquisitions. From Jena he went to the University of Kiel in 1904 as a full professor of classical archeology and at the same time became director of the antiquities collection. In 1908 he moved to the chair at the University of Tübingen. Both in Kiel and Tübingen he campaigned for the expansion of collections and the reform of archaeological studies.

In 1916, Noack's career reached its peak when he was appointed full professor of archeology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. There he also became a member of the central directorate of the German Archaeological Institute in 1918. In this capacity he led the reopening of the Athens department in 1921. In the same year he was elected first chairman of the Archaeological Society in Berlin.

Through his marriage to Else Hartleben, he became the brother-in-law of the poet Otto Erich Hartleben (1864–1905) and the archaeologist and educator Ludwig Pallat. Their marriage produced two children, including the historian Ulrich Noack.

In his research work, Noack combined archaeological and philological methods early on. Through his travels to Italy and Greece, his research focus shifted to architectural history, particularly Greek (including Mycenaean). In the last years of his life he increasingly devoted himself to Roman architectural research (Pompeii).

writings

Iliupersis. De Euripidis et Polygnoti quae ad Troiae excidium spectant fabulis. Giessen 1890 (dissertation).

The Greek Dictys. In: Philologus. Supplement volume 6 (1893), pp. 400–500.

The birth of Christ in the visual arts up to the Renaissance following E.beinwerke from the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1894.

Homeric palaces. A study of the monuments and the epic. Leipzig 1903.

Oval house and palace in Crete. A contribution to the early history of the house. Leipzig 1908.

The architecture of antiquity. Berlin 1910.

Σκηνὴ τραγική. A study about the scenic systems on the orchestra of Aeschylus and the other tragedians. Tübingen 1915.

Eleusis. The architectural development of the sanctuary. Berlin 1927.

Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Two volumes. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig 1927 (digital copies).

Architectural historical studies on the outskirts of Pompeii. Berlin 1936.

Ulrich Noack (*2. June 1899 in Darmstadt; † 14. November 1974 in Würzburg) was a German historian and university professor of medieval and modern history.

Life: Noack was the son of the archaeologist Ferdinand Noack. He studied history and philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he heard Friedrich Meinecke and Ernst Troeltsch. He further studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Study visits took him to Rome and Cambridge. In 1925, Meinecke received his doctorate on Bismarck's peace policy and the problem of the decline of German power, and in 1929 he completed his habilitation on politics as securing freedom on the Catholic historical thinker John Dalberg-Acton (1929) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Noack belonged to the Confessing Church and was banned from publishing from 1933. Since 1927 he was married to a Norwegian woman and focused on Nordic history. In 1937/38 Noack held a professorship at the University of Halle and shortly afterwards became a lecturer in Nordic history, in December 1942 apl. Professor at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. At the beginning of December 1939, Noack met the then State Councilor Vidkun Quisling at a book exhibition in Oslo. Both gentlemen later discussed the political and military-strategic situation in detail. Quisling called for Germany's military attack on the Soviet Union. Noack summarized Quisling's statements on August 8th. December 1939 in a detailed file note in order to enforce it in Berlin. But this was without result. After the assassination attempt on the 20th In July 1944, Noack was imprisoned for six weeks.

In 1946, Noack received a full professorship in medieval and modern history at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, where he became head of the modern department of the seminar for ancient and modern history in the Faculty of Philosophy. As early as 1946 he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Greifswald, switched to the CSU in Würzburg and in 1948 founded the Nauheimer Kreis with August Haußleiter, which advocated a neutral and unarmed Germany and the Western integration and rearmament later decided under Konrad Adenauer rejected. As dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Würzburg in 1948. In 1952 he founded the magazine World Without War. In 1951 he was expelled from the CSU, then joined the All-German People's Party and was finally a member of the FDP from 1956 to 1960.

His second wife from 1952 was Marianne Noack née Buschette, his former secretary.

In his scientific work, Noack tried to break down world history into 70 or 70 years. 210 years that remained without acceptance.

Given the Soviet and American interests in Central Europe, Noack seemed to imagine a united Germany only as neutralized and demilitarized under international guarantees from both blocs. Germany should act as a barrier between the blocs to create peace and support the global economy with its population size, economic power and infrastructure. After 1949, Noack considered the USA to be more of a threat to peace than the USSR.

Letters 1951 to 1972: According to Ulfried Schaefer, Ulrich Noack's letters and those of his wife Marianne to Walter Schloß, the founder of the Berlin Heidegger Circle, show Ulrich Noack not only as a fighter against Konrad Adenauer with the idea of ​​neutralizing and demilitarizing Germany for reunification and finally for Willy Brandt, but also as a fighter for a world without war. The letters reveal the contacts that the Noacks were looking for to attract like-minded people and also for financial support. They document the degree of approval and rejection, success and failure, and their positive and negative attitudes towards parties and people.

Publications (selection)

Bismarck's peace policy and the problem of the decline of German power, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928.

Politics as Securing Freedom, Habil.-Schrift, Frankfurt a. M. 1929, Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1947, 2. ed. 1960.

History and truth. Based on the writings of John Dahlberg-Acton, the historian of freedom 1834 - 1902, Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1935.

Catholicity and freedom of spirit. Based on the writings of John Dalberg-Acton 1834 - 1902, Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1936.

The political ethos in European diplomacy, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1939.

History of the Nordic Peoples, Oldenbourg, Munich/Berlin 1941.

Germany's new figure in a searching world, Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1946.

The Nauheim Protocols. Discussions about the neutralization of Germany. The first three conferences of the Nauheimer Kreis August, September, December 1948, self-published, Würzburg 1950.

Norway between peace mediation and foreign rule. Publisher Auf-Bau der Mitte, Krefeld 1952.

Mind and space in history. Classification of German history in the structure of world history. Musterschmidt, Göttingen/Berlin/Frankfurt/Zurich 1961.

The happier possibility as a recognizable dimension of historical judgment formation. Commentaries on world history. World without War publishing house, Würzburg 1978.