Angelo Treves
Angelo Treves (born October 7, 1873 in Vercelli ; died December 27, 1937 in Milan ) was an Italian translator and author .
Life
First publications deal with the history of his hometown. In 1894 Treves completed his literary studies with a thesis on the Italian troubadour Sordello . He was initially politically active in the Associazione Generale degli Operai (General Workers' Association), then wrote for the most important socialist magazine before the First World War, Filippo Turatis and Anna Kuliscioff's Critica Sociale , and from 1921 also for the pro-Bolshevik publication Comunismo der Serrati -Socialists.
With the rise of fascism in Italy , his political engagement subsided and he became a renowned translator of mostly German-language literature. The numerous works he has transferred include writings from a wide variety of authors and genres, from Grimmelshausen's adventurous Simplicissimus to Theodor Fontane , Arthur Schnitzler , Schalom Asch , Friedrich Lorenz , Richard Katz , Franz Kampers , Friedrich Huch , Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker , Anton von Perfall , Karl Rosner , Upton Sinclair , Henri de Monfreid , Peter Freuchen , Friedrich Albert Lange , Paul Frischauer , Raoul Heinrich Francé , Charles Kingsley , Józef Ignacy Kraszewski , Karl Allmendinger alias Felix Nabor, Jonas Lie , Emil Peschkau , Charles Reade , Desiderius Papp , Joseph Victor von Scheffel , Walter Bloem , Robert Byr , Felix Hollaender , Ferdinand Fried , Mirko Jelusich , Oswald Spengler and Friedrich Nietzsche to Karl May's treasure in the Silbersee and many more.
Probably for this reason the still young Milanese publishing house, founded in 1929, commissioned Bompiani Treves with the first translation of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic program publication Mein Kampf into Italian, which appeared in 1937. It is not known why Treves, who was of Jewish faith, accepted this commission.
Two days after his death in Milan, Treves was buried in the Vercelli Jewish cemetery.
Web links
- Literature by and about Angelo Treves in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Angelo Treves in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Bruno Maida: Un ebreo il primo traduttore di Hitler , in: tradurre. pratiche teorie strumenti, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information on life data and biography are based on the research results of the Italian historian Roberto Gremmo, in: Tribuna Novarese, January 29, 2007, p. 17, quoted at: http://www.storia900.altervista.org/traduttore.htm
- ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/sordello-tesi-di-laurea/oclc/253905671
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Treves, Angelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian translator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vercelli |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1937 |
| Place of death | Milan |