Date of birth: 17 August 1846
Date of death: 2 January 1924
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**Georg Carsten Wilhelm Soltau** (born 17 August 1846 in Hamburg, Germany; died 2 January 1924 in Ilshofen near Schwäbisch Hall, Germany), known as **Wilhelm Soltau** was a German classical philologist, historiographer (historian), chronologist.
Dissertation at Bonn (Germany), 1870: *“De fontibus Plutarchi in secundo bello Punico enarrando”*. Professor at the secondary school (sometimes called "University") at Zabern (Alsace).
Married on 21 July 1891 at Straßburg (Alsace) Gertrud Nöldeke (1867-1942), daughter of Theodor Eduard Bernhard Franz Nöldeke (1836-1930) and Sophie Cornelia Katharina Johanne Harries (1844-1916). Five children: Anna Sophie Agathe Soltau (1892), Gustav Karsten Theodor Eduard Soltau (1893), Margarete Marie Christiane Dora Gertrud Soltau (1895), Arnold Bernhard Erwin Wilhelm Soltau (1896-1917) and Bernhard Soltau (1900-1961).

Not to be confused with author und translator Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau from Hamburg.

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