Ignaz Jeitteles

Ignaz Jeitteles ( Yiddish יגנץ ייטלס; born on September 6 or 13, 1783 in Prague ; died on June 19, 1843 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Jeitteles comes from an important Jewish family of scholars in Prague. His father Baruch Jeitteles was a Talmud scholar , his grandfather Jonas Jeitteles was a doctor. After attending the Piarist High School in New Town , Jeitteles studied law at the University of Prague , where August Gottlieb Meißner became his mentor, who read about aesthetics and classical literature there. However, domestic circumstances forced him to drop out of studies and move to Vienna, where he became a partner in a wholesaler.

In Vienna, Jeitteles developed a lively journalistic activity and in the following years wrote around 500 articles with critical, historical, satirical or poetic content, some under his name, some anonymously in the Annals of Austrian Literature , in the Wiener Literarian Anzeiger , in the Morgenblatt for educated estates (1816–1820), in the newspaper for the elegant world (1809–1812), in the Dresdner Abend-Zeitung (1817), in Fränkels Sulamith (1806–1818), in Hormayr's archive for geography, history, state - and war art (1812 and 1813), in the Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode (1817-1820), in Becker's General Gazette , in Andrés Patriotisches Tageblatt , in Lewald's Europa and in various paperbacks, for example in Castelli's homage of women , appeared in Graffer's Ceres and Philomele . In addition, in 1819, together with his cousin, the doctor and comedy writer Alois Jeitteles , he edited the magazine Siona, an encyclopedic weekly newspaper for Israelites , which only appeared for six months.

He also wrote several independent writings, including a biography of his grandfather Jonas Jeitteles, but his main work was the Aesthetic Lexicon , which appeared in two volumes in 1835 and 1837 . While Jeitteles is critically progressive in his journal articles and can be attributed to the Austrian Vormärz , he shows himself to be conservative and backward-looking in his conception of art, following in particular Johann Georg Sulzer's General Theory of Fine Arts , with the aim of updating it to a certain extent and accordingly applied outdated normative standards to all of Goethe's literature. Jeitteles writes in the preface to the lexicon :

"In order to contribute to this continuation [of Sulzer's work], my endeavor was to exclude the best from the scattered materials of an aesthetic, scientific and artistic nature in the textbooks of dignified aesthetes and factual encyclopaedists, which had accumulated many times since the Sulzer period, according to a fixed principle and with a critical eye, and to keep the presentation clear, far from the fog of school, without forgiving anything of the dignity of science. "

In 1825 he married Fanni, daughter of the wholesaler Hirsch Barach. The marriage remained childless. In 1839 the University of Jena Jeitteles awarded an honorary doctorate. The plan for a literary history, for which he had already done extensive preparatory work, was no longer implemented. In his final years he made a trip to Italy, the result of which, A Journey to Rome , was published posthumously by Lewald in 1844. Jeitteles died in Vienna in 1843 at the age of 59. The poet Franz Grillparzer wrote as a draft for a funeral motto: "Those who are otherwise so distant: insight into the necessary and warmth for the real, they shake hands over this grave."

His wife Fanni died in 1857 and bequeathed her entire, not insignificant fortune to the Israelite religious community in Vienna for charitable purposes, scholarships for doctors, lawyers, painters and sculptors and the establishment of a pension house for poor widows, which was built in the Landstrasse district from 1857 .

Ignaz Jeitteles is often wrongly assigned the pseudonym Julius Seidlitz , which is actually attributable to the writer Isaak Jeitteles (1814-1857). In the ÖBL entry on Lemma Julius Seidlitz , Ignaz Jeitteles is also mentioned as the actual name and information from the two people is mixed up, for example Ignaz Jeitteles' honorary doctorate.

Works

literature

Gotthard Deutsch , S. Mannheimer, Solomon Schechter , Alexander Kisch , Peter Wiernik, Frederick T. Haneman, Isidore Singer : Jeiteles (Jeitteles). In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Cornelia Fischer: Jeitteles, Ignaz . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 6, p. 125.
Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1906, vol. 6, pp 776 -778.
Heinz Rieder: Jeiteles, Ignaz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 388 ( digitized version ).
Herbert Seidler: Austrian pre-March and Goethe time. Vienna 1982.
Henry Wasserman, Meir Lamed: Jeiteles. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica. Edited by Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd Ed. Vol. 11. Macmillan Reference, Detroit 2007, pp. 114-116.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Jeitteles, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 122 ( digitized version ).
Jeitteles, Ignaz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , pp. 48-49.

Individual evidence

^ Ignaz Franz Castelli: Homage to women. A paperback. Library of German Literature. Vienna 1823–1847, digitized .
↑ Franz Graeffer: Ceres. Originals for amusement and art enjoyment. Vienna 1823, part 1, digitized .
^ Franz Gräffer (ed.): Philomele . Brno 1825 f., Digitized .
↑ See Killy and Goedeke. Could not be proven bibliographically.
↑ Jeitteles: Aesthetic Lexicon . Vienna 1837, vol. 1, SV
^ Franz Grillparzer: Complete Works. Volume 1, Munich [1960-1965], p. 460 .
↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Jeitteles, Fanni . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 124 ( digital copy ).
^ PH Kucher: Seidlitz, Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 132 f. (Direct links on p. 132 , p. 133 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Jeitteles, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jeiteles, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1783 or September 13, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1843
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Ignaz Franz Castelli: Homage to women. A paperback. Library of German Literature. Vienna 1823–1847, digitized .

[2] Franz Graeffer: Ceres. Originals for amusement and art enjoyment. Vienna 1823, part 1, digitized .

[3] Franz Gräffer (ed.): Philomele . Brno 1825 f., Digitized .

[4] See Killy and Goedeke. Could not be proven bibliographically.

[5] Jeitteles: Aesthetic Lexicon . Vienna 1837, vol. 1, SV

[6] Franz Grillparzer: Complete Works. Volume 1, Munich [1960-1965], p. 460 .

[7] Constantin von Wurzbach : Jeitteles, Fanni . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 124 ( digital copy ).

[8] PH Kucher: Seidlitz, Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 132 f. (Direct links on p. 132 , p. 133 ).