Harald von Mendelssohn

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Harald von Mendelssohn (born January 15, 1911 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † January 13, 2008 in Copenhagen) was a German-Danish writer and journalist .

Life

He belonged to the German-Jewish merchant, scholar and artist family Mendelssohn from Jever , which goes back to Moses Mendelssohn (not identical to the philosopher of the same name). His cousin was the publicist Peter de Mendelssohn .

Mendelssohn was born in Copenhagen as the son of the German writer Erich von Mendelssohn (1887–1913) and the Danish Gerda Schack-Schou (1888–1971). After studying in France and the USA, he worked in the foreign affairs department of the “ Frankfurter Zeitung ”. In the spring of 1934 he emigrated to Denmark, was connected to the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and had to flee to Sweden in October 1943 . After the war he returned to Copenhagen.

From 1939 to 1963 he was a member of the Danish press agency Ritzau and until 1974 of the Associated Press in Copenhagen. In addition, he was an employee of the Danish radio. For decades he pursued private historical and religious studies studies, as a result of which he wrote the book Jesus - Rebel or Redeemer in 1981 . The history of early Christianity published. In 1995 published a biography about the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard : Søren Kierkegaard. A genius in a small town.

Works

  • Jesus - rebel or savior. The history of early Christianity , Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-08824-4
  • Søren Kierkegaard. A genius in a small town , Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91666-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Harald von Mendelssohn to Peter de Mendelssohn in June 1977, Peter de Mendelssohn estate, Monacencia, B 848
  2. ↑ Abstract Kierkegaard with a short biography of Mendelssohn
personal data
SURNAME Mendelssohn, Harald von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2008
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark