Friedrich Thieberger

Friedrich Thieberger (born November 12, 1888 in Goltsch-Jenikau , Austria-Hungary ; died May 30, 1958 in Jerusalem ) was a Czechoslovak-Israeli religious philosopher and Judaist , publicist , translator and author of works on Jewish topics.

Life

Friedrich Thieberger came from a rabbinical family and was the son of the Prague rabbi Dr. Karl Thieberger. In 1907 he completed his education at St. Stephen's High School in Prague. He then studied German language and literature with August Sauer as well as philosophy and philology at the Charles University in Prague and received his doctorate.

Franz Kafka took lessons in Hebrew from 1914 to autumn 1917 from Thieberger, with whom he had a conversation in a bookstore at the end of 1912 . Thieberger's sisters Gertrude , later a poet and from 1922 married to Johannes Urzidil , and Nelly Thieberger became friends with the young writer.

After completing his studies, Thieberger worked as a high school professor for modern languages at German high schools in Czechoslovakia.

Thieberger was actively involved in Jewish life in Prague, but was Zionist- oriented and not a member of Orthodox Judaism . From 1926 to 1938 he edited the monthly B'nai B'rith for Czechoslovakia .

In 1939 he went to Palestine and became the rector of the Hebrew University there . He also translated some of Josef Klausner's works into German .

Thieberger's literary and academic estate is now in the National Library of Israel .

Works (selection)

Masarykovo kredo a židovské náboženství , article, 1931
Masaryk and Judaism , 1934
Jewish Festival - Jewish Custom , 1937
King Salomon , 1947
The Levels of Faith in Judaism , 1952

literature

Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar - Nekrolog 1936-1970. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-004381-5 .
Johannes Urzidil : The Hebrew teacher. In: Johannes Urzidil: There goes Kafka . Extended edition, dtv, Munich 1966. pp. 53–64.
Thieberger, Friedrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Hartmut Binder: Kafka's world. A life chronicle in pictures , page 580, Verlag Rowohlt, 2008, ISBN 3-498-00643-6 ( excerpt )
↑ Manfred Voigts: Birth and Devil Service. Franz Kafka as a writer and as a Jew , 2008, page 32 ( digitized version )
^ Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka. The Eternal Son , 2008, page 425 ( digitized version )
↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century . Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1378 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Kairos . Journal for Religious Studies and Theology, volumes 32–35, page 235, Verlag O. Müller, 1991 ( excerpt )
↑ Hans-Gerd Koch (Ed.): "When Kafka came towards me ..." , page 121, Wagenbach paperback volume 528, Wagenbach publishing house, 2005, ISBN 3-8031-2528-6 ( excerpt )

personal data
SURNAME	Thieberger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Religious philosopher and Judaist, publicist, translator and author of works on Jewish topics
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goltsch-Jenikau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	May 30, 1958
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] Hartmut Binder: Kafka's world. A life chronicle in pictures , page 580, Verlag Rowohlt, 2008, ISBN 3-498-00643-6 ( excerpt )

[2] Manfred Voigts: Birth and Devil Service. Franz Kafka as a writer and as a Jew , 2008, page 32 ( digitized version )

[3] Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka. The Eternal Son , 2008, page 425 ( digitized version )

[4] Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century . Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1378 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[5] Kairos . Journal for Religious Studies and Theology, volumes 32–35, page 235, Verlag O. Müller, 1991 ( excerpt )

[6] Hans-Gerd Koch (Ed.): "When Kafka came towards me ..." , page 121, Wagenbach paperback volume 528, Wagenbach publishing house, 2005, ISBN 3-8031-2528-6 ( excerpt )