Background
Wilsdorf, Helmut Maximilian was born on May 9, 1912 in Berlin. Son of Georg Maximilian and Marie Amalie (Hennig) Wilsdorf.
Wilsdorf, Helmut Maximilian was born on May 9, 1912 in Berlin. Son of Georg Maximilian and Marie Amalie (Hennig) Wilsdorf.
Student, University Bonn, Germany, 1931—1932. Student, University London, 1932. Doctor of Philosophy, University Leipzig, Germany, 1939.
Diploma in Oriental Art, Ecole De Louvre, Paris, 1931.
Orientalist, keeper Egyptological Museum, Leipzig. Orientalist, keeper and fine arts collections Frankfort-Main, 1935. Teacher Greek, Latin, Hebrew Public Schools, Freiberg, Germany.
Member faculty Mining Academy, 1946—1958. Assistant department history and ethnology mines and miners Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1959—1960, associate, 1961—1962, chairman department, 1962—1981. Lecturer Humbold University, Berlin.
Associate to board ethnology Committee Mining Museum. Served with German Army, 1939-1946.
Member of Society Historians, Society Medical History, Current Anthropology (associate).
Married Ursula Hartmann Wilsdorf, September 17, 1949.