Eugen love

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Eugen Lieben (born June 11, 1886 in Prague , † October or November 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Czech classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Eugen Lieben, the son of the glove maker Gabriel Lieben (1853–1917) and his wife Ernestine b. Edel (1864–1942) studied Classical Philology at Karl Ferdinand University and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then taught German, Latin, Greek, history and philosophical propaedeutics at the German-speaking state high school in Prague's Old Town . He acted as the administrator of the school library and was appointed high school professor. On November 22, 1918, he married the 27-year-old Hanna Grünbaum (1891–1944) from Schwabach , with whom he had three sons: Arthur, Rudolf and Max.

In addition to teaching, Lieben was also active in science and journalism. He wrote several articles on the biography of the Roman poet Martial and essays on Jewish history, Jewish customs and anti-Semitism . After the occupation of the Czech Republic by the German Reich , Lieben was dismissed from school. Together with other teachers, he founded a private education and training organization for Jewish children. He was arrested and interrogated several times by the Gestapo . In July 1943 he was deported from Prague to the Theresienstadt ghetto together with his wife and two sons Rudolf and Max . The eldest son Arthur (Abraham) emigrated to Palestine in 1939 . Eugen and Hanna Lieben were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on October 23, 1944 , where both were immediately murdered; the sons Rudolf and Max had already been deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on September 29, 1944 and from there after a short time to the Kaufering 4 camp near Dachau. The middle son Rudolf died there in December 1944, the youngest son Max (now Mordechai Livni) survived and emigrated to Israel after the liberation.

Fonts (selection)

  • The relationship of the poet Martial to the imperial court . Prague 1909 (dissertation)
  • To the biography of Martial . Two parts, Prague 1911–1912 (school program)

literature

  • Vilém Fuchs: Shadows - Traces - Encounters. The bitter years in Prague 1935–1945 . Bremen 1999, p. 42.
  • 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 , p. 829 (No. 6267).

Web links

Wikisource: Eugen Lieben  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaufering survivors: Biographical sketches of former Jewish prisoners. Materials on the Kaufering subcamp complex . Berlin 2008, p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Love, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 1944 or November 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp