Siegfried Kapper
Siegfried Kapper ( Isaac Salomon Kapper ) (* March 21, 1820 Smíchov, † June 7, 1879 in Pisa ) was a German - Czech writer, translator and doctor of Jewish origin.
Life
The son of a teacher from 1795-1816 in the German language operating visited the Czech elementary school in Smichow and was further informed by the father in the German language. From 1830 he attended high school in the Lesser Town in Prague and studied from 1836 to 1839 Philosophy at the University of Prague. He then spent a year as a private tutor ( " Steward " ) in Russia, then he went to Vienna, where he enrolled for the study of medicine. After graduating, he took a job as a doctor at the Croatian -Turkish border in Karlstadt ( Karlovac ) and took from there traveled extensively through the Croatian settlement area between the Sava and Adriatic Sea to intensive study of the South Slavic language; he was disappointed by the political development and the relationship to the Czech student movement.
During the Revolution, 1848-1849, he returned to Vienna, where he worked as a journalist; after the crackdown he made several long trips through southern Hungary and the Slavic regions of the Ottoman Empire. Above all, these trips he worked in epic works and travelogues.
Then he traveled through Germany and Italy.
It was not until 1854 he returned to Bohemia, married a sister of his Prague university friend Moritz Hartmann and settled as a general practitioner until Dobříš ( Dobritz ) and 1860 in Mladá Boleslav ( Mladá Boleslav ) down.
Works
As a student, he joined the Young German movement in Bohemia, where he was also interested in Czech literature and made friends with Karel Sabina and Václav Bolemír Nebeský, the representatives of the young Bohemia ( Mladá Čechie ). He described himself as a Czech, but it was on his Jewish origins, which was met with many representatives of the movement incomprehension. After the suppression of the uprising of 1848, he wrote only in German language.
His most important work was České listy, the first collection of poems in Czech, which were written by a Jew.
Publications (selection)
- České listy ( Czech Sheets, 1843)
- O Crnoj Gori (Travelogue Montenegro), translated and edited by Tomislav Bekić, CID, Podgorica 1999, ISBN 86-495-0094-3 ( = Biblioteka Svjedočanstva, Serbian ).
- Lazar, the Serbenczar. After Serbian legends and heroic songs ( 1851)
- The Serbian movement in southern Hungary 1848-1849, Serbian: Srpski pokret u južnoj Ugarskoj 1848-1849, 1851, new edition edited by Slavko Gavrilovic, Gutenbergova Galaksija, Beograd 1996, ISBN 86-7058-040-3 ( = Istorijska biblioteka, Volume 2 )
- Falk, A narrative, Katz, Dessau 1853
- The manuscripts of Koniginhof and Grünberg. Old Bohemian poetry from the 10th to the 12th century (1859 ).
- Tales of the coastal land, Czech: Pohádky Primorske, 1865, new edition published by Zina Trochová, Nakladatelství Franze Kafky, Praha 1998, ISBN 80-85844-49-4.
- Gusle. Serbian poems (1874 )