Anton Bettelheim

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Anton Bettelheim

Anton Bettelheim (born November 18, 1851 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † March 29, 1930 ibid) was an Austrian literary scholar , translator and writer .

Life

Anton Bettelheim was the son of Jewish parents and the younger brother of the pianist Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim .

He attended high school in his hometown until he graduated from high school, and in 1869 began to study law at the University of Vienna . In 1873 he was able to successfully complete this course with a doctorate to become a Dr. iur. to lock. Subsequently, Bettelheim completed his legal clerkship and also worked for a law firm for a short time.

In 1878 Bettelheim gave up his legal career and went to Munich . At the Ludwig Maximilians University he took the subjects history , literature and philosophy ; he heard from Wilhelm von Giesebrecht and Michael Bernays , among others , with interruptions due to his study visits to Paris and London .

In 1881 Bettelheim went back to Vienna and took over the feature section of the Free New Press . At the same time, he was also appointed theater advisor for the Deutsche Zeitung . In that year he also married the older daughter of the actor couple Ludwig and Zerline Gabillon , the author and artist Helene Gabillon . With her he had three children: Ludwig (1882–1943), Friederike (1884–1943) and Otto Heinrich (1887–1903). He also worked occasionally with the historian August Fournier , his brother-in-law.

The idea of Zionism of Theodor Herzl Anton Bettelheim replied strictly negative in the "Munich General News" and spoke of the "Carnival Dream of a hung-over by the Jews noise columnists".

Through his work, the examination of literature became an ever greater focus. His biography of Beaumarchais received high praise from the public as well as from official critics. In 1907 he was entrusted with the management of the General German Biography and until 1910 he held this office. Bettelheim is also considered the founder of the New Austrian Biography , which appeared for the first time in 1923 and which he supervised until the end of his life.

Anton Bettelheim died on March 29, 1930 in Vienna at the age of 78 and found his final resting place in the Döblingen cemetery .

Works (selection)

As an author

Essays
  • Volkstheater and local stage . In: The Nation . Weekly for politics, economics and literature . Vol. 4 (1887).
  • Johann Anzengruber . In: Die Nation , vol. 5 (1888).
  • The estate of Berthold Auerbach . In: Die Nation , vol. 6 (1889).
  • A Viennese Widmann evening . In: Die Nation , Vol. 4 (1887).
Monographs
  • Beaumarchais. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1886. (2nd, revised edition, Munich 1911)
  • The future of our popular theater. Ten essays from the years 1882–1892 . Fontane, Berlin 1892.
  • Germans and French. Biographical courses, essays and lectures . Hartleben, Vienna 1895.
  • Acta diurna. Collected essays . Hartleben, Vienna 1899.
  • Berthold Auerbach. The man, his work, his estate . Cotta, Stuttgart 1907. Digitized 14.7 MB
  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's work and legacy . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920.
  • Wiener biographer courses . Literary Institute, Vienna 1921.
  • Balzac . A biography . Beck, Munich 1926.
  • Karl Schönherr and the Austrian folk piece. Hartleben, Vienna 1926.
  • Karl Schönherr. Life and work . Staackmann, Leipzig 1928.
  • A settlement with the Karl-May-Verlag . Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1918.

As editor

  • Ludwig Anzengruber: Collected works in ten volumes . Cotta, Stuttgart, 1890 (together with Vinzenz Chiavacci and Vratislav Kazimír Šembera ).
  • Leading spirits. A collection of biographies . Ehlermann, Dresden 1890/94 (Vol. 1–6).
  • Spirit heroes. Leading Spirits, a collection of biographies . Hofmann, Berlin 1894/97 (Vol. 1–26).
  • Biographical sheets. Yearbook for life history art and research . Hofmann, Berlin 1895/96 (2 vol.).
  • General German biography . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907/10 (3 vol.).
  • Louise by François and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . An exchange of letters . Reimer, Berlin 1905.

As translator

  • Émile Littré : How I made my dictionary of the French language. a chat (“Commet j'ai fait mon dictionnaire de la langue française”). Friedrich , Leipzig 1881.
  • Émile Littré: Story of a Paris Student . Bergmann Verlag, Vienna 1886.
  • Prosper Mérimée : The dissatisfied. Comedy in one act . Union-Verlag, Stuttgart 1908.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Anton Bettelheim  - Sources and full texts


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/internationales/asien/israel/44953/theodor-herzl
personal data
SURNAME Bettelheim, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1930
Place of death Vienna