Max Nettlau
Max Nettlau | |
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Max Nettlau | |
| Born | 30 April 1865 Neuwaldegg, Archduchy of Austria, German Confederation |
| Died | 23 July 1944 (aged 79) Amsterdam, Reichskommissariat Niederlande |
| Genre | History, politics |
| Literary movement | Anarchism |
Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (German: [ˈnɛtlaʊ]; 1865–1944) was a German anarchist and historian.
His extensive collection or archives was sold to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in 1935. 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.