Hugo Jacobi (poet)

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Hugo Simon Jacobi (born November 14, 1882 in Strasbourg ; † December 14, 1954 in Zurich ) was a German lawyer and poet.

Hugo Jacobi was the son of the entrepreneur Salomo Jacobi, the partner and second namesake of the iron and steel company Wolf Netter & Jacobi . His mother was the wife of Salomo Jacobi, Ottilie Jacobi nee Röthschild. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg , especially with Richard Schröder , and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. As an officer, he took part in the First World War. During a stay in a hospital in Strasbourg, he wrote his first volume of poems I don't know who is still alive… . After Alsace-Lorraine became French again in 1918, he lived in Berlin and was a councilor in the Prussian government in Potsdam.

In 1938 he emigrated to New York City via France and last lived in Zurich. He was a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad . In his will he donated the Hugo Jacobi Prize for “young poets struggling for style and existence”.

Works

  • The insurance policy. Strasbourg: Du Mont Schauberg, 1911, also Heidelberg, Jur. Diss. V. June 24, 1911
  • I don't know who's still alive ... poems. Strasbourg: Singer [1917]
  • The suspect: poems. Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer 1925 [Copyright in the imprint, according to Berger 1926]
  • Nefertiti: poems. Berlin: Kiepenheuer 1933
  • Venetian reflections. Cologne; Berlin: Kiepenheuer 1951
  • (posthumous) poems. Edited by Ferdinand Lion . Cologne; Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1955

literature

  • Jacobi, Hugo , In: Robert E. Ward: A Bio-Bibliography of German-American Writers. White Plains, NY: Kraus 1985 ISBN 0-527-94444-0 , p. 142.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate 3204/1882 Strasbourg registry office
  2. ↑ survival data after the obituary in the NZZ of 16 December 1954, the obituary in the Basler National-Zeitung of 22 December 1954 the year of birth, unlike the LCCN and Leo Baeck Institute, is certainly 1882, because the obituary states that he died at the age of 72
  3. ^ Commemorative words by Ferdinand Lion
  4. ↑ Fischer Weltalamanch 1961 . Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1961, p. 304
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Hugo Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1954
Place of death Zurich