Adolph Kohut

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Adolph Kohut

Adolph Kohut (born November 10, 1848 in Mindszent , Csongrád county ; died November 21 or 22, 1917 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German-Hungarian journalist , literary and cultural historian , biographer , “lecturer” and translator from the Hungarian.

Life

Adolph Kohut was born as one of thirteen children of the very poor, devout Talmudic scholar Jacob Kohut . He studied at the Breslau seminary from 1866 to 1868, like his older brother Alexander . He then studied New Philology and Art History for two semesters at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau and then at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In Vienna he attended lectures during three years at the University of Vienna and in 1878 at the Alma Mater Jenensis Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1872 he was brought to the Breslauer Nachrichten editorial office by Karl von Holtei . In 1873 he was editor of the Düsseldorfer Zeitung . Leopold Ullstein hired him in 1878 at the Tribune in Berlin and a little later at the Berliner Zeitung . Then he edited the magazine Deutsches Heim. Illustrated entertainment sheet for all stands . Like many other journalists, Kohut was also persecuted in various processes under the Reichspreßgesetz . In one case the public prosecutor demanded six weeks imprisonment for him for violating § 7, § 18 and § 19 (Act on the Press) .

On September 13, 1884, he was expelled from Prussia as an "unpopular foreigner" after he had allegedly attacked Bismarck violently in an article . In reality he had been expelled from Berlin at the instigation of the anti-Semite Adolf Stöcker , who advocated this with Minister Robert von Puttkamer . He lived in Dresden for the next five years . A letter from the Prussian Legation Council in Saxony from Count Karl August von Dönhoff dated December 21, 1889 allowed Kohut to return to Berlin. He arrived there in April 1890. As Kohut wrote, Bismarck himself never campaigned for his expulsion.

Adolph Kohut, who had been ill since 1915, died on the night of November 21st to 22nd, 1917 in his Berlin apartment at Courbiérestrasse 7. There was no obituary in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , nor was the Community Bote (Berlin) mentioning him on the occasion of his death .

Adolph Kohut not only had to fight with conservative, liberal or anti-Semitic German contemporaries, but also (quote: "Some of the personalities treated, directly or through their friends, against the fact that they were and are Jews, or of descendants of Israelites") with his religious contemporaries.

Adolph Kohut has authored more than 120 books and monographs and hundreds of articles in magazines. He was also known as a translator from Magyar . His translation by Sándor Petőfis is permanent . He dedicated many works to Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Wieland and others. He also wrote several books on Bismarck and Ferdinand Lassalle . As an avowed Jew, he published numerous writings on Jewish personalities, the legend of the ritual murder, and more. He publicly opposed anti-Semitism. Kohut was also a prolific contributor to Reclam's Universal Library . He made a name for himself with his numerous works on composers. During the First World War , like many Germans, he took chauvinist positions against France. Many of his works were reprinted as facsimiles long after his death . The Kalliope database contains 147 manuscripts for Adolph Kohut. Including five letters to Edmund Kretschmer , forty-seven to Wolfgang Kirchbach , to the editors of the "Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland" Friedrich Zarncke and Eduard Zarncke a total of thirteen letters. A letter each from Kohut to Wilhelm Raabe and Emil Rittershaus . Also a letter from Wilhelm Busch to Kohut. The archives do not know of any bequest from Adolph Kohut. Kohut donated his photograph with the dedication “Mr. SW Racken here with respect and devotion, REDACTEUR Dr. ADOLPH KOHUT, November 4, 1976 “by the photographer G. Overbeck, Düsseldorf.

A biography or dissertation about Adolph Kohut has not yet been published.

Since 1877 he was married to the prima donna Elisabeth Mannstein (1843–1926), who worked for several years on European stages and most recently worked as a singing teacher in Berlin. The son Oswald Kohut (1877–1951) emerged from the marriage . One of his grandsons was Oswald Adolph Kohut .

Honors

Works

For an overview of his works, translations and articles in journals see Adolph Kohut catalog raisonné .

literature

  • Kothut, Ad. In: Kürschner's German literature calendar for the year 1904 , 27th year of GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig 1905. archive.org
  • Kohut, Adolph . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 4th 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, pp. 58-59. deutschestextarchiv.de
  • Kothut, Ad. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for 1917 . 39th year GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig 1918, column 897-898. archive.org
  • SA: Kohut, Adolph . In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume III. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1928, p. 757, Freimann Collection Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Adolf Kohut . In: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 3. Hey-Laz . Orient, Czernowitz 1928, pp. 495–496.
  • Valerie Hanus:  Kohut Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 67 f. (Direct links on p. 67 , p. 68 ).
  • Wolfgang Steinitz : Adolph Kohut. A cultural mediator between Hungary and Germany . In: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Social and Linguistic Series , Volume 14. Humboldt University, Berlin 1965, pp. 843 ff.
  • Alfred Estermann: Content-analytical bibliographies of German cultural journals of the 19th century . Tape. 7: The Century (1856-1859). German magazine (1861–1863). Freya (1861-1867). Orion (1863-1864). German waiting (1871–1875). The Salon (1868–1890). Saur Munich 1996. ISBN 3-598-23317-5 books.google.de Evidence of reviews and articles about Adolph Kohut's works
  • Bibliography of the works of Hungarian literature published in separate volumes in German translation (1774–1999) . Compiled by Tiborc Fazeka. Hamburg 1999. mtak.hu (PDF) Evidence for Kohut's translation work>
  • Kohut, Adolph. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 196-211. Most extensive work documentation to date
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 715-716 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Kohut, Adolf . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 11. Leipzig 1907, pp. 248-249.
  • Kohut, Adolph . In: Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906 (English)

Web links

Wikisource: Adolph Kohut  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Dr. Adolph Kohut, the well-known music writer and editor, died on September 21 at the age of 69 in Berlin ”. In: Music pedagogical sheets. United magazines of piano teachers, vocal pedagogical sheets. Central sheet for the entire music education system. Organ of the German Music Pedagogical Association EV , Berlin 1917, p. 155. See also Bavarian Musicians Lexicon Online .
  2. ↑ “The author died on the night of September 21-22, 1917 in Berlin during the printing of this work, the publication of which was very close to his heart. Mülheim-Heißen, d. September 29, 1917 Kronenkampf Vlg. Gottfried Goldau ”. In: Adolph Kohut: Martin Luther as son, husband and father . Kronenkampf Verlag, Mülheim-Heißen 1917, p. 2.
  3. ^ Hugo Riemann's Music Lexicon . 11th edition Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 924, archive.org
  4. ↑ Kohut, Adolph . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1917, Part I, p. 1446. “Dr. phil., Ung. Royal Council, writer, etc. Lecturer. W 62, Courbiérestraße 7 Zwg. 1".
  5. ↑ See also his book: Memoirs of a Jewish seminarist .
  6. ↑ Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin
  7. ^ "German home. Editors Kohut and Ehrentraut. Inh. Engelmann 1874 “(sic!) In: Eva-Annemarie Kirschstein: The family magazine, your development and importance for the German press . Leipzig 1937 (diss.), P. 158.
  8. ^ "Kohut, Berlin, Kochstr. 23. V [erlag] Berliner Zeitung. It [apparently] weekly. […] A [uflage] 32,000 […] (fiction, essays, criticism, etc.) “In: German literature calendar for the year 1884 . Volume 6. Spemann, Berlin 1884, p. 339.
  9. ↑ General German literary calendar for the year 1881 , pp. 34–35.
  10. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia .
  11. ↑ This claim runs through almost all biographical articles about Adolph Kohut.
  12. ↑ Described in detail in: Personal memories of the former Reich Chancellor .
  13. ↑ See also the dissertation by Helmut Neubach: The expulsions of Poles and Jews from Prussia 1885/86. A contribution to Bismarck's Poland policy and the history of German-Polish relations . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967, (= Marburger Ostforschungen 27), pp. 20 and 164.
  14. ^ Kohut to Eduard Zarncke dated February 10, 1915.
  15. ^ Bismarck yearbook . Volume 1. Berlin 1894, p. 507 f.
  16. ↑ "When we reported Kohut's work 'Fürst Bismarck und die deutsche Litteratur' some time ago in this paper, we mentioned that this drooling was probably only written in order to have Kohut's expulsion from Berlin withdrawn". ( Michael Georg Conrad in: Die Gesellschaft. Munich bi-monthly publication for art and culture . Welcomed and edited by MG Conrad. Leipzig 1890, p. 462.)
  17. ^ Friedrich Zöllner : Contributions to the German Jewish question with academic arabesques as documents for a reform of the German universities . Edited and with an introduction by Moritz Wirth. Mutze, Leipzig 1894, p. 341 ff., 755 a. a. m. Freimann Collection UniFrankfurt
  18. ↑ Quoted from: Harald Lordick: "Only I miss Christmas very much". Eduard Schnitzer (1840–1892), Governor of the Equatorial Province . In: Kalonymos. Contributions to German-Jewish history from the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute . 10th year 2007, issue 4, p. 14. steinheim-institut.de (PDF)
  19. ↑ Ritual Murder Trials .
  20. ^ Julius Stettenheim against anti-Semitism .
  21. ^ France as a hereditary enemy of Germany .
  22. ↑ The Book of Duels (1981, 1996); Ritual Murder Trials (1991); Emperor Joseph II ( 2012); Doctors as statesmen, diplomats and politicians (2013); Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind (2013) a. a.
  23. ^ Wilhelm Busch: Complete Letters . Volume II. Letters 1893 to 1908, Hanover 1969, p. 91. zeno.org
  24. ^ In November 2015 in the second hand bookshop Herbst-Auctions, Detmold.
  25. ^ "He is married to the well-known concert singer and singing teacher Elisabeth Mannstein (since 1877)". ( Richard Wrede , Hans von Reinfels (ed.): Das Geistige Berlin . Volume 1. Life and work of architects, sculptors, stage artists, journalists, painters, musicians, writers, draftsmen . Photomechanical reprint of the original edition from 1897. Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1975, p. 256).
  26. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 1997, volume 6, p. 8.
  27. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6, pp. 7-8.
  28. ^ Oswald A. Kohut. Munzinger biography
  29. ↑ Ladislaus Takács: The Hungarian in the world . Georg Vajna, Budapest 1934, p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Kohut, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohut, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian writer and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindszent , Csongrád county
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1917 or November 22, 1917
Place of death Berlin-Grunewald