Ignaz Kuranda

Ignaz Kuranda ( born May 8, 1811 in Prague, † April 3, 1884 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist, politician and president of the Jewish Community Vienna.

Life

The son of a bookseller bookseller Kuranda should take over his father's profession, but went in 1834 to Vienna, where he attended lectures in philosophy of Lichtenberg and introduced her to writers like Grillparzer or Lenau. In these first years in Vienna drop his first literary attempts.

Travels took him to Stuttgart and Paris, where he made ​​the acquaintance of Uhland and Heine. In Brussels, he served as a correspondent for the " Allgemeine Zeitung " from Augsburg. In addition to other numerous trips through Europe, he finished his studies in political science and history in Leipzig with the promotion. Its already started in Brussels political activities came clearly to light with the March Revolution of 1848. He belonged to the fifties Committee and was a member of the deputation to prepare for the parliamentary elections in Prague. From June 27 to August 24, 1848, he was as MP for Teplitz non-attached member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. After the failure of the revolution, he turned to local politics and in 1861 represented the " Constitution Party " in the Lower Austrian Landtag. From this he was sent to the House of Representatives of the Imperial Council and was instrumental as a member of the " Subcomités of the Constitutional Committee " part in the creation of the Constitution in December 1867. He also was a member of the Vienna City Council.

Through a process against anti -Semitic articles in the "Wiener Zeitung Church ", he gained high reputation among the liberal forces and Eastern European Jews. Kuranda was elected in 1872 as President of the Jewish Community in Vienna. He also promoted Jewish studies in his position as Vice President of the " Israelite Alliance". In 1872 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Leopold. He never used the title of nobility associated with it. In 1881 he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna, where a park was named after him.

Publicist

Already in his first year in Vienna he published as a theater critic in the " Telegraph" and 1834: the technology based on Schiller's fragment " Warbeck " drama "The Last White Rose ", which was listed in 1838 in Stuttgart and 1846 at Vienna's Burgtheater. As a correspondent in Brussels, he made ​​contact with Flemish groups. To deepen these relationships, he founded in 1841 the weekly magazine " The Grenzboten " whose editors had to be moved the following year to Leipzig. In Leipzig he increasingly turned to themes that illuminated the inner-German relations. " The Grenzboten " was the only magazine for liberal -minded Austrians at the time of the pre-March period. In 1848 he handed over the management to Julian Schmidt and Gustav Freytag.

In connection with the March revolution, he founded the " East German Post," which became the mouthpiece of his political ideas. He advocated it as a German embossed - not federalist - Austria, which was received after the failure of an all-German solution 1848/52, but at least by close economic and military ties with the other German States. After the show had to be stopped during the revolution unrest at times and he was under police surveillance, he took in 1853 to work on the " East German Post" again. After the demise of the German Confederation in 1866 and thus the end of all political hopes, the newspaper was finally stopped. As editor of the " Grenzboten " and the " East German Post" was one of the most outstanding exponents of Kuranda liberalism in Austria and gave this order hearing.

Works

As an author:

• The last White Rose, 1834 ( dramatic poem )
• Prussia and the Jews, in: The Grenzboten, Second Year, First Semester, pp. 301-306, online.
• Belgium since its revolution, Leipzig, 1846, 462 pages, online.

As editor:

• The Grenzboten ( weekly, 1841-1848 ) Second year, first semester, Leipzig 1842, 748 pages, online
• Third year, second semester, Volume II, Leipzig 1844, 612 pages.
• Fourth Year, Semester I, Volume I, 622 pages, online.