Victor Klemperer
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| Born |
9 October 1881 Landsberg an der Warthe, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, today Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland |
| Died | 11 February 1960 (aged 78) Dresden, East Germany |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Spouse(s) | Eva Klemperer née Schlemmer (1882–1951) Hadwig Klemperer née Kirchner (1952–1960) |
| Parent(s) | Wilhelm Klemperer Henriette Klemperer née Frankel |
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a Romance languages scholar, who also became known as a diarist, whose journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. His journals covering the period of the Third Reich have since become standard sources, and have been extensively quoted by Saul Friedländer,Michael Burleigh,Richard J. Evans and Max Hastings.
Klemperer was born in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) to a Jewish family. His parents were Dr. Wilhelm Klemperer, a rabbi, and Henriette née Frankel. He was brother to the physicians Felix Klemperer and Georg Klemperer (who both also consulted Vladimir Lenin), cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer, and first cousin once removed to Otto's son, the actor Werner Klemperer. In 1903 Klemperer converted to Protestantism for the first time, shortly thereafter returning to Judaism, before his second conversion in 1912.
Victor Klemperer attended several Gymnasien. He was a student of philosophy, Romance and German studies at universities in Munich, Geneva, Paris and Berlin from 1902 to 1905, and later worked as a journalist and writer in Berlin, until he resumed his studies in Munich from 1912. He completed his doctorate (on Montesquieu) in 1913 and was habilitated under the supervision of Karl Vossler in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, Klemperer lectured at the University of Naples, after which he became a decorated military volunteer in World War I. From 1920 he was Professor of Romance Languages at the Technical University of Dresden.
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