Heinrich Pollak (writer)

Heinrich Pollak (born April 2, 1834 in Mattersburg , Austrian Empire ; died October 19, 1908 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist, writer and entrepreneur.

Life

Pollak attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and in 1859 became a journalist for the newspaper "Österreichischer Lloyd", for which he reported from the Italian War of Independence as a war correspondent . He also reported from the German War in 1866 . In 1867 he became editor and co-owner of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and was a member of the board of directors of the Steyrermühl publishing house between 1872 and 1894 .

Fonts

• [Anonymous]: The judge trial . According to official files and shorthand records from a specialist. Vienna, Leopold Sommer 1860 archive.org
• P. Heinrich [pseudonym]: Small residence stories . Introduced by Norbert Bechhöfer. Vienna, Steyrermühl in Commission 1884
• [Anonymous]: Thirty years from the life of a journalist . 3 volumes, Vienna: Hölder 1894 archive.org , 1895 archive.org , 1898 archive.org
• P. Heinrich [pseudonym]: Archduke Johann. A character image . Adolph W. Künast, Vienna 1901 archive.org
• P. Heinrich [pseudonym]: Experiences of a war correspondent from the years 1859, 1866 and 1870 . Vienna 1908

literature

• Elisabeth Lebensaft:  Heinrich Pollak. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 169.
• Christine Gruber:  Pollak, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 601 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Pollak, Heinrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 119-122.