Leopold Kompert
Leopold Kompert ( born May 15, 1822 in Munich Kralove, Bohemia, † November 23, 1886 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian- Jewish narrator and publicist, one of the first German writer of novels Ghetto (1848 ).
Life
Kompert, son of a wool merchant, who grew up in the Jewish quarter of Miinchengratz, attended from 1832 to 1836 the Piaristengymnasium in Mladá Boleslav. Here Moritz Hartmann was one of his classmates. In 1836 he went to Prague to high school, there was a high school and studied there until 1838 philosophy. Since 1840 he gave literary contributions to literary magazines. From 1838 to 1840 he lived as a tutor in Vienna. Kompert be held at some time in Hungary in 1840 and worked in 1841 for the " Pressburger Zeitung " in Bratislava. From 1843 to 1847 he was tutor to the children of the Earl G. Andrássy. 1847 Kompert returned to Vienna to study medicine, but was again ' directed by the revolutionary events of 1848 to the field of journalism: From 1848 to 1852 he was features editor and publisher of " Austrian Lloyd ". In 1852 he gave up the editorship of the newspaper, lived for many years as an educator in the home of the Prussian Consul-General Goldschmidt (authorized representative of the Rothschild bank ), after his marriage ( 1857) with Marie Pollak as an employee of the Austrian Credit Bank, since 1861 as a freelance writer in Vienna. Kompert took as an author now a respected position in the public one: in 1857 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena awarded. 1868 he was appointed Executive Council, 1870 district school board. In 1876, he was Board of Education of Lower Austria. Kompert was strongly committed to the German Schiller Foundation, the Vienna branch club he co-founded. Since 1873 he was also a member of the board of the Jewish community in Vienna.
Kompert was one of many prominent Jewish writers in Central Europe, which encouraged the marked by anti-Semitic tendencies time after the Napoleonic wars Jews to emigrate to the United States.
Kompert published in 1863 " Yearbook of Israelites " an article by Heinrich Graetz on messianism, which is why it came in Vienna against him to the " Kompert process" for blasphemy. Lazar Horowitz and Isaac Mannheim were called as experts.
As a member of the Vienna City Council (1873-1881) and " honorary director for the education of the Jewish community in Vienna ," he fought for assimilation and integration. To his friends were, among others, Heinrich Laube, Ferdinand Kürnberger and Emil cow.
In 1884 he was honored in recognition of his literary achievements and his work for the common good of the Emperor with the title " Government ".
His ghetto stories have been translated yet during his lifetime into other languages.
In 1955 ( 22nd District ) was named after him in the Kompertgasse Vienna Danube city.
Works
First editions
- From the ghetto. Stories ( narratives ), Leipzig: Fr Grunow 1848
- Bohemian Jews ( stories ), Vienna: Jaspar, hills and Manz 1851
- On the plow. A story (novel, two volumes), Berlin: Franz Duncker 1855
- Corporal Spitz In: Yearbook of Israelites to the year 5620 (1859 /60). Vienna: 1859, pp. 209-245
- Beschrieen In: Illustrirtes Israelite Yearbook of jest and earnest to the year 5620 (1859 /60). Tirnau and Pest 1859, pp. 85-89
- New stories from the ghetto (stories, 2 volumes), Prague: Kober and Markgraf 1860
- Stories of an alley ( Novellen. 2 volumes), Berlin: Louis Gerschel 1865
- How to married In: Yearbook of Israelites to the year 5626 (1865 /66). Vienna 1866, p.244 -352
- As dog and cat In: Yearbook of Israelites to the year 5627 (1866 /67). Vienna 1867, p.179 -190
- The dreamer in: Concordia Calendar for the year 1869 Vienna:. 1969, pp. 39-66
- Between ruins. Roman ( 3 volumes), Berlin: Otto Janke, 1875
- Franzi and Heini (novel), 1881
More issues (selection)
- Complete Works, ed. by Stefan Hock, 10 volumes, 1906 ( with biography)
- Ghetto Stories, ed. by Burkhard Bittrich, 1988
- The village goers. Stories from the Ghetto, ed. by Florian Krobb, 1997