Julius Bruck (writer)
Julius Bruck , pseudonym of Adolf Sonnenthal , (born October 14, 1833 in Brieg , Province of Silesia , † June 20, 1899 in Leipzig ), was a German doctor, writer and translator .
life and work
After attending grammar school in Brieg, Bruck studied medicine at the universities in Berlin and Breslau . From 1861 to 1863 he worked as a military doctor in the Prussian Army , but then emigrated to the USA , where he participated in the American Civil War as an assistant doctor in the New York Steuben Regiment . From 1865 Bruck worked as a general practitioner in Newark ( NJ ).
After turning to writing, he was u. a. as head of the editorial department of the German-language newspaper Neuyorker Revue and in the publishing house of the German-American Samuel Zickel . In 1885 Bruck returned to Germany to live in Leipzig, where in 1886 he co-founded the journalists' association Verein Leipziger Presse, relief fund for Leipzig journalists and writers , and later only Leipzig press .
Works (selection)
- 1876: Ahasver. Old legend, new interpretation
- 1880: Colorful flowers. Joke and seriousness in verse
- 1885: Adolf Sonnenthal. Description in words and pictures
- 1886: From Hubs and Over. Joke and seriousness in verse
- 1900 ( posthumous ): Komus and Homus. Harmless rhymes
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 1, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, pp. 359-360 .
- German-American National Association (Hrsg.): The book of the Germans in America. Philadelphia 1909, p. 378.
Individual evidence
- ^ NN : Catalog of the German-American library of the Germania male choir. New York 1894, p. 63.
- ^ NN: German American Studies. Institute for German-American Studies, University of Michigan 1972, p. 134.
- ^ NN: The literary [sic!] Leipzig. Illustrated manual of the writers and scholars, the press and the publishing book trade in Leipzig. Fiedler 1897, p. 138.
- ↑ Katja Rampelmann: In the light of reason. The German-American Freethinker Almanac from 1878–1901. Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-515-07872-X , p. 244.
Remarks
- ↑ Contains an early German translation of the poem Der Rabe by Edgar Allan Poe .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruck, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sonnenthal, Adolf (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brzeg , Province of Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1899 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |