Meïr Aron Goldschmidt

Meir Aron Goldschmidt ( born October 26, 1819 in Vordingborg; † August 15, 1887 in Copenhagen) was a Danish publisher, journalist and writer with a Jewish background. Goldschmidt grew up in a strictly orthodox Jewish family in Copenhagen. His encounter with the Greek classical culture led to a change in his attitude and prompted her to seek him for ways of harmonizing the Jewish and non-Jewish thought. He was particularly impressed by the Greek idea of Nemesis, and coined many of his later works.

After receiving his doctorate in 1836, he founded in 1837 Præstø Office Tidende, which merged with the Callundborg Ugeblad to Sjællandsposten 1839. Thee he sold in 1840 and founded the same year the political and satirical weekly Corsairs ( " Pirates " ) where he criticized the king, under the pseudonym of different publishers. He was sentenced to ( six times four days ) jail and placed on 7 June in 1843 as the real publisher censored by the Supreme Court. Corsairs forms a permanent innovation in the history of Danish journalism.

Goldschmidt boasted Søren Kierkegaard because of his either - or, but the mutual friendship was broken, as the corsair undertook continued attacks on Kierkegaard - partly by Kierkegaard himself provoked attacks.

Goldschmidt sold in 1846 and moved Corsairs from 1847 to 1859, the political magazine Nord og Syd ( " North and South ").

Politically Goldschmidt was initially an innovator with Republican sympathies and affections to the utopian- socialist views ( a novelty in Danish literature ), but from the 1850s he approached a more traditional liberal ideology, so that his attempts to play a political role as editor, accusations of opportunism unleashed. Approx. In 1860, he ended his career as an opinion and focused on the literature.

His literature shows an interest in metaphysics and philosophy. The novel De Jode ( A Jew ) first describes the Copenhagen Jewish milieu from the internal perspective: A partially assimilated Jew is excluded because of the prejudices of his environment and is exposed to the feeling of insecurity. The great Roman Hjemløs deals with the idea of Nemesis, as well as the significant Arvingen ( " The Heirs" ), the first Danish literary treatment of the topic of divorce. Especially valuable are his stories and novellas, describe the Jewish characters in a special blend of irony and sympathy. Quite often this is the realism is broken by a brand of mysticism.

For a brief marriage, a son (1846 ) and a daughter (1848 ) emerged.

The posterity shall Goldschmidt as ambivalent author. His novels have by long passages of pure actions and descriptions of trivialities weaknesses, but in concentrated form (especially in the age novels ), he proves it as the last great Danish prose writer of romance. As romantics, his interest turned to the problems and he takes certain questions of psychology anticipated, not least the Henrik Pontoppidan's writings. As the first Danish- Jewish writer, he contributed to the portrayal of its home environment to a growing openness between the two cultures. Finally, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern Danish and independent journalism.

Novels

Secondary literature

• Andreas Blödorn: " For me there's always something behind it ." Jewish Life and poetic realities in Meir Aron Goldschmidt's abysmal ironic realism, in: the Storm Society 55 (2006 ), pp. 65-77
• Mogens Brøndsted: Goldschmidt fortællekunst, 1967
• Kenneth H. Ober: Meir Goldschmidt, Boston, 1976

• Author
• Literature ( Danish)
• Publisher
• Publisher (19th Century )
• Journalist (Denmark)
• Dane
• Born in 1819
• Died in 1887
• Man