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person1910–1963

Kurt Wolff

Disciplines:
publishing
publishing/pantheon books
germany/germany/usa

Summary

German-American publisher who founded Pantheon Books — the press that published the English-language Collected Works of C.G. Jung, the Bollingen Series, and many major Jungian texts — and who earlier published Kafka, Werfel, and Trakl in Germany.

Core Contribution

Created the publishing infrastructure for Jungian psychology in English-speaking culture — the Bollingen Series (named after Jung's tower) published major works in mythology, religion, and depth psychology that formed the intellectual context for Jungian scholarship in America.

Historical Influences

European publishing tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Leipzig Germany New York Bollingen Series

Contemporaries & Peers

ScharffMary Mellon

Minds Influenced

Jungian English publicationAmerican Jungian tradition Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

Pantheon Books Bollingen Series Jung Collected Works English

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