Jacob Julius David

Jacob Julius David

Jakob Julius David (born February 6, 1859 in Mährisch Weißkirchen , Austrian Empire ; died November 20, 1906 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Jakob Julius David was born in Moravia as the son of a wealthy Jewish German-speaking tenant . The family soon moved to Fulnek , where the father died. David grew up in Söhle and attended high schools in Kremsier and Troppau . Here he fell seriously ill with typhus in 1873, which severely restricted his eyesight. He has also been hard of hearing since then. Nevertheless, he began studying German and history in Vienna in 1877 and took an active part in the capital's student life.

Since his handicap prevented him from teaching, he first worked as a tutor and then as a journalist. Jakob Julius David worked as an editor and journalist, a. a. for Wiener Mode , Die Zeit , Mondaysrevue , Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , Neue Wiener Journal and Wiener Zeitung . He was also a freelance writer.

In 1889 he received his doctorate in philosophy. He switched from Judaism to Catholicism, which was of little importance because he was still in close contact with Jewish personalities and wrote philosemitic articles for Jewish publications such as the Österreichische Wochenschrift . In 1891 David married Juliane Ostruska, the marriage had a daughter. In 1899 he made an extensive trip to Italy. Jakob Julius David joined the Masonic Lodge Zukunft , for whose magazine Zirkel he wrote articles. In 1905 he fell ill with bronchial cancer and died in 1906 at the age of 47 in Vienna and is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 0, row 1, number 52) .

Artistic creation

portrait

Jacob David's burial place

His literary output includes poetry , novels , short stories and dramas , with his best and most lasting works undoubtedly being the short stories. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 's influence is reflected in his early works . Many of his novels and stories are about his Moravian homeland or are settled in the middle-class milieu of Vienna. Jakob Julius David is judged very differently in terms of style; if his works are assigned to naturalism , on the one hand , he is seen as a representative of literary decadence on the other. Still others attribute it to Austrian realism. Although the author is on the one hand one of the relatively unknown writers in Austria, his stories have been reissued over and over again over the past 20 years.

Works

• Collected works in seven volumes . Munich and Leipzig, 1908–1909

Poems

• Poems . Dresden 1892

Novels

• Das Blut , Dresden undated
• Die on the way , Berlin 1900
• The transition , Berlin 1903

stories

• The court right . Dresden 1890
• The born again . Stories. Dresden and Leipzig 1891
• Problems . Stories. Dresden and Leipzig 1892
• Morning ticket. Stories of the outcome of the great war . Leipzig 1896
• Four stories . Leipzig and Berlin 1897
• The Troika . Stories. Leipzig and Berlin 1901
• The Hanna . Stories from Moravia. Berlin and Leipzig 1904
• Hallucinations . in Neue Deutsche Rundschau XVII 1906
• Whimsical saints . Stories. Vienna 1906

Dramas

• Hagar's son , drama, Vienna 1891
• A rainy day . Drama, Leipzig 1896
• Inclination , drama, Leipzig 1898
• Faithful Eckardt . Drama, Leipzig 1902

Essays

• Mitterwurzer . Berlin 1905
• From creating . Essays, Jena 1906
• Essays . Munich 1909

Awards

• Prize from the Schwestern-Fröhlich Foundation
• 1897: Bauernfeld Prize
• Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery , by Josef Kassin with the inscription: He died on the way .

literature

• Kurt Vancsa:  David, Jakob Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 536 ( digitized version ).
• David Jakob Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 171.
• David, Jakob Julius. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 307-320.
• Florian Krobb: David, Jakob Julius. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 109f.
• Martin Erian: An Austrian Zola? On Jakob Julius David's “Viennese Novels”. In: Austriaca (2019), No. 86, pp. 149-164.
• Jakob Julius David , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 103-106

Web links

Wikisource: Jakob Julius David  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Jakob Julius David in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Jakob Julius David in the Gutenberg-DE project