Wilhelm Altmann (4 April 1862 – 25 March 1951) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

. Altmann was born in Adelnau (Odolanów),

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...

, and died in

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...

. Wilhelm Altmann and his wife Marie née Louis are buried in Hildesheim, Peiner Straße on the cemetery Nordfriedhof (Zentralfriedhof). The couple had three children: Ulrich (1889-1950), Ursula (1894-1984) and Berthold (1896-1992).

Literary works

* '' Tonkünstlerlexikon'', ¹²1926 * '' Kammermusikliteratur'', ⁵1931 1862 births 1951 deaths People from Ostrów Wielkopolski County German music historians German musicologists People from the Province of Posen German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-musicologist-stub