page_title: Norbert von Hellingrath
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Norbert von Hellingrath / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Norbert von Hellingrath as a soldier in WW-I Deutsch: Norbert von Hellingrath als Soldat im 1. Weltkrieg
context_page_description: Friedrich Norbert Theodor von Hellingrath was a German literary scholar whose main contribution to literary scholarship is the first complete edition of the works of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin.
context_section_description: Hellingrath was born in Munich: his father was an army officer and his mother claimed descent from the Byzantine Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus. He studied philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
  Attracted to Hölderlin’s poetry from an early age, in 1910 he provided a prefatory essay for the first publication of Hölderlin's translations of Pindar (published in Jena, 1911). 
    
  From 1912–14 Hellingrath lived and taught in Paris, during which time he began work on his monumental first-ever "Complete Edition" of Hölderlin, Hölderlins Samtliche Werke, collecting together not only all the poems in their variant forms, the novel Hyperion, the unfinished drama The Death of Empedocles, the articles and translations, but also all traceable letters and written accounts of the poet. The enterprise was planned in six volumes. Hellingrath published Volumes I and V in Munich in 1913, but after the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for military service and was killed in action during the Battle of Verdun on 14 December 1916 at the age of 28.
caption: Norbert von Hellingrath during World War I.
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