[Account of his life to 1920].

Arthur Wolf’s autobiography in English written during the last years of his life, based on his German diaries. The diaries are available as part of the Arthur Wolf papers, AR 25270.Arthur Wolf mentions the sentencing of the writer and philosopher Wilhelm Börner for heresy in 1911 on page 54 of the original manuscript; clippings pertaining to this sentence are available in folder 2.Also available is a typed transcript that was reviewed by Arthur’s nephew, Peter Wolf, but some words or names could not be deciphered. Arthur Wolf’s life and movements are marked in bold.The manuscript is part of the Arthur Wolf Papers, AR 25270.Arthur Wolf was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890, the fourth child of Jacob and Friedericke Wolf. His father died when Arthur was young, and at age 14 he was apprenticed to a textile firm. Before World War I, he traveled to South America repeatedly as a sales representative. During the war, Arthur was a high ranking officer in the Austrian army and spent six years as a prisoner of war in Siberia. He met his future wife, Maria Sebastianova Ossinovsky in Vladivostok