Georg Leopold Weisel

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Georg Leopold Weisel

Georg Leopold Weisel (born as Joachim Löbl Weisel ; 1804 in Přestitz , Austrian Empire ; died March 31, 1873 in Neumark (Bohemia) , Austria-Hungary ) was a Bohemian-Austrian doctor and writer.

Life

Joachim Löbl Weisel was the child of a clothes dealer, he grew up in Přestitz. He studied medicine in Prague, where he lived in the Jewish quarter and made a living as a private teacher. He practiced as an obstetrician in Klattau and later in Neumark. Weisel married Ann Pavlovská, Germanized his name and converted to Catholicism in 1843.

Weisel created numerous short stories in the 1830s and 1840s that were based on older Jewish traditions, sagas and legends. He also wrote short stories from the contemporary life of the Bohemian Jews. In his collections he was temporarily supported by Franz Klutschak (1814–1886).

The story My First Practice appeared in Bohemia magazine in 1836 . In 1838 Die Pinchasgasse came out: A Jewish folk tale in the panorama of the universe , the story was reprinted several times, including by Wolf Pascheles . Other publications included 1844 Die Schnorrer or Jewish beggars , 1845 Die Jeschiboth or Jewish universities and 1850 The Prague Jews as They Live .

Under the influence of his neighbor Božena Němcová , who had published the Obrazy z okolí domažlického collection (Travel Pictures from the Taus region) in 1846 , he published the report of the Chodian Trials in the Panorama of Universe in 1848 , a small contribution to the history of the homeland about the oppression of the Chods in the 17th century. The article, reissued in 1873, was, according to Josef Blau , a basis for Alois Jirásek's well-read national Czech novella Psohlavci in 1884 .

Works

  • Josef Blau (Ed.): Georg Leopold Weisel: From the Neumarker Landestor . Contributions to Sudeten German folklore, 17th Sudetendeutscher Verlag F. Kraus, Reichenberg 1926
  • The golem . In the Gallery of Sipurim, a collection of Jewish sagas, fairy tales and stories, as a contribution to ethnology. Prague 1847, pp. 51-52

See also

literature

  • Georg Leopold Weisel , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, pp. 994-998
  • Leopold Weisel , at YIVO , Jews in Eastern Europe
  • Jana Doleželová: Questions of Folklore in the Legends of the Old Jewish Town Compiled by Leopold Weisel (1804–1870) , in: Judaica Bohemiae, 12, 1976, pp. 37–50
  • Hillel J. Kieval: Languages ​​of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands . Berkeley, 2000, pp. 106-110
  • Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein: Out of the “Gasse”: Modern history of the Jews in the Bohemian countries. Second part: 1830–1890 . Münster 2002, pp. 152-162

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also p. 138f., P. 301; therein listing of his Sippurim stories, especially in volume 1.
personal data
SURNAME Weisel, Georg Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisel, Joachim Löbl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Přestitz , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1873
Place of death Neumark (Bohemia) , Austria-Hungary