Jakob Julius David

Jakob Julius David ( born February 6, 1859 in Moravian white churches, † November 20, 1906 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and writer.

Life

Jakob Julius David was born the son of a wealthy Jewish German farmer in Moravia. The family moved soon after Fulnek, where the father died. David went to high school in Kremsier and Opava. Here he fell ill in 1873 with typhoid difficult, so he was very limited in his vision. In addition, he has since been hard of hearing. Nevertheless, he began in 1877 in Vienna with the study of German literature and history and took a lively interest in the student life of the capital.

Since the teaching profession he was denied due to his disability, he worked as a private tutor and then as a journalist. Jakob Julius David worked as an editor and journalist, among other things, for the Viennese fashion, the time Monday Revue, the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neues Wiener Journal and the Wiener Zeitung. He was also a freelance writer.

In 1889 he obtained his PhD Doctor of Philosophy. He changed from Judaism to Catholicism, but had no great significance, as it continued to focus on Jewish personalities were in regular contact and has written for Jewish publications, such as the Austrian weekly, philo -Semitic articles. 1891 married David Juliane Ostruska, marriage came a daughter. In 1899 he made ​​an extended trip to Italy. Jakob Julius David joined the Masonic Lodge future, for their magazine circles, he wrote Contributions. In 1905 he fell ill with bronchial cancer and died in 1906 at the age of 47 years in Vienna and at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 52) buried in a grave of honor.

Artistic creation

His literary work includes poetry, novels, short stories and dramas, with his best and most enduring works are undoubtedly the stories. In his early works, the influence of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer reflects. Many of his novels and stories deal with his Moravian home or are in the middle-class milieu of Vienna settled. Assessed Stylistically Jakob Julius David is very different; His works are on the one hand associated with naturalism, he on the other hand regarded as the representative of literary decadence. Still others assign it to the Austrian realism. Although the author on the one hand one of the lesser known writers of Austria, his stories have been reissued yet again in the last 20 years.

Works

  • Collected works in seven volumes. Munich and Leipzig, 1908-1909

Poetry

  • Poems. Dresden 1892

Novels

  • The blood, Dresden o.J.
  • On the way to die, Berlin 1900
  • The transition, Berlin 1903

Stories

  • The courtyards law. Dresden 1890
  • The born-again. Narratives. Dresden and Leipzig 1891
  • Problems. Narratives. Dresden and Leipzig 1892
  • Early appearance. Stories from the output of the Great War. Leipzig 1896
  • Four stories. Leipzig and Berlin 1897
  • The troika. Narratives. Leipzig and Berlin 1901
  • The Hanna. Tales from Moravia. Berlin and Leipzig 1904
  • Hallucinations. in New German Rundschau XVII 1906
  • Whimsical saints. Narratives. Vienna 1906

Dramas

  • Hagar's son, acting, Vienna 1891
  • A rainy day. Drama, Leipzig 1896
  • Inclination, drama, Leipzig 1898
  • Faithful Eckardt. Drama, Leipzig 1902

Essays

  • Mitterwurzer. Berlin 1905
  • From Creative Work. Essays, Jena 1906
  • Essays. Munich 1909

Awards

  • Price of the sisters - Up Foundation
  • 1897: Farmer Field Award
  • Honor grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery, by Josef Kassin with the inscription: He died on the way.
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