Hans Prager

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Hans Prager (born September 12, 1887 in Vienna , † December 4, 1940 in Paris ) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, essayist, critic and literary scholar as well as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Gandhi researcher.

Life

Hans Prager was born in Vienna as the son of Leopold and Emma Prager, née Finaly. He was of Jewish faith, but resigned from the Jewish community on August 22, 1903. Two years later he became a member of the Protestant community in Vienna. In 1906 he became a speaker and critic for new literary publications for the Frankfurter Zeitung. In that year he also began lecturing. He studied philosophy at the University of Zurich and then at the University of Vienna with the Catholic philosopher Laurenz Müllner (1848–1911), who aroused his interest in Russian culture. In 1911 he received his doctorate in philosophy. With the beginning of the First World War in 1914 he was a soldier until 1916. In 1917 Hans Prager married the later poet and painter Käthe Braun , the sister of the Austrian writer and poet Felix Braun . His daughter Ulrike was born in 1920. From 1920 onwards, Prager gave lectures at the Vienna Adult Education Center. Articles on the same topics appeared in various newspapers, and he gave further lectures in radio stations and other events until 1937. In 1938 he emigrated to Paris. He was taken to various French internment camps. Hans Prager died on December 4, 1940 in a Paris hospital.

Hans Prager's estate was given to the Austrian National Library .

To the work

“Among the numerous unrecognized writers in Austria, Hans Prager is perhaps the most haunting character. Because of his theses about the conflicts of the Austrian, he can also claim to be the most controversial. His essay “Der Österreicher” (1928) contains perhaps a greater number of memorable hypotheses than any other text in contemporary essay writing. [...] The life's work of this unique thinker is waiting to be rediscovered. His penchant for pathos deserves to be compared with that of a second Jewish writer born in Prague, Franz Werfel. "

- William M. Johnston, Der Österreichische Mensch, Vienna, 2009

Works

  • The stolen death - essay, Mnemosyne magazine for Jewish culture, Klagenfurt, issue 26/2000
  • Der Weltangstschrei , - essay, Mnemosyne magazine for Jewish culture, Klagenfurt, issue 26/2000
  • The Indian Apostolate - (via Gandhi), Rotapfel-Verlag, Erlenbach-Zürich, 1925
  • Wladimir Solovjeff's Universalist Philosophy of Life - Verlag Mohr, Tübingen, 1925
  • Dostoyevsky's Weltanschauung - (main work), foreword by Stefan Zweig, Verlag Borgmeyer, Hildesheim, 1923

literature

  • Erwin Rieger (editor), "Ewiges Österreich", essay by Hans Pager: Der Österreicher. A mirror of his culture , Manz Verlag, Vienna 1928, pages 211–239

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personal data
SURNAME Prager, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1940
Place of death Paris