Joseph Samuel Tauber
Joseph Samuel Tauber , also Josef Samuel Tauber or Josef Sami Tauber (born August 12, 1822 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; died January 9, 1879 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.
Life
Joseph Samuel Tauber's parents Jonas Tauber and Josefine Teltscher came from Leipnik , they were wealthy. A relative was the doctor Ludwig August Frankl . Tauber married Louise Hönigsberg in 1849.
Tauber was originally supposed to be a rabbi, but dropped out of training after his father's death. Between 1841 and 1847, several grand tours took him to France and Italy, where he met Heinrich Heine and Moritz Hartmann , who encouraged him to publish his poems.
In 1847 his first volume was published under the title Poems . Tauber took an active part in the revolutionary events of 1848 , he wrote revolutionary songs and signed the “Manifesto of the Writers of Vienna”. After the suppression of the revolution he stayed in Prague and Krakow for a time. As a journalist, Tauber wrote for Die Presse and the Sunday papers, among others . In 1853 he became secretary of the journal Der Wiener Lloyd , and in 1859 he was a founding member of the journalists and writers' association Presseclub Concordia . As a bread-and-butter profession, Tauber was a sworn stock exchange trader .
In the 1860s, Tauber translated Hebrew synagogal chants into German for the Jewish reform movement he supported , which Salomon Sulzer added to his hymn book Shir Zion .
Besides Heine, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Franz Grillparzer were dedicated to his poems . In addition to poems and sayings, Tauber published a volume of Ghetto Stories based on Leopold Kompert's model in 1853 , and a second volume followed in 1859. These were received by other writers and spun on as “Prague folk literature”.
Works (selection)
- Poems . 1847
- The last Jews. Lost ghetto fairy tales . Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1853
- For music. Songbook . Zamarski, 1860
- For music. Songs, romances and choirs . Vienna: Dittmarsch, 1863
- Fifths. Little poems . Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1864 (2nd increased edition 1869)
- The desire to create stories . Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1878
literature
- H. Lengauer: Tauber, Josef Samuel (Sami). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 208.
- Gabriele von Glasenapp: Tauber, Joseph Samuel , 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. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012 ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 498-500
- Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghetto literature. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries , 2 parts in 3 volumes (= Conditio Judaica; 53–55). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, pp. 1068-1071
- Anton Schlossar: Tauber, Josef Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 423.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Samuel Tauber in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manifesto of Vienna's Writers. Appeal of the Viennese writers for the realization of the freedom of the press; Vienna, March 15, 1848 , at ÖNB
- ^ Tauber, Josef Samuel in the German biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tauber, Joseph Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tauber, Josef Samuel; Tauber, Josef Sami |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1879 |
| Place of death | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |