Julius Zeyer
Julius Zeyer (born April 26, 1841 in Prague ; † January 29, 1901 there ) was a Bohemian writer, poet and dramaturge of German-French descent.
Life
Zeyer came from a middle-class family in Prague. His father, a timber wholesaler, came from an impoverished French (Old Saxon) nobility. His mother was the daughter of a German Jewish family in Prague. He had six siblings. He learned the Czech language from his wet nurse, who told him Bohemian sagas and fairy tales and to whom he was grateful for teaching the Czech language.
He first learned the carpentry trade in Prague, but he learned it in Vienna. He began studying at the Realgymnasium, which he did not finish any more than studying at the technical school. He then traveled to Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland. After his return he studied classical languages at the Philosophical Faculty and made frequent trips to Europe. He worked as an educator in a Russian aristocratic family, traveled on to Sweden, Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Greece and the Caucasus . He later immortalized the experiences as impressions in his novels. Zeyer was engaged to Sophie Stone (* 1841), the eldest daughter of the Engelsdorf estate manager William Stone.
In the 1870s he joined the Lumírovci , but belonged to the passive part of the literary group.
In 1887 he moved to Vodňany , made friends with Otakar Mokrý and František Herites , and made other trips to the Balkans and the Crimean peninsula. In 1899 he returned to Prague. He lived with his friend Josef Hlávka , a patron of Czech art.
Works
It is difficult to assign his oeuvre to one category, but it was closest to the Lumírovci, a cosmopolitan school. According to the character of his works, one can assign him to neo-romanticism .
His epic poetry dealt with the glorious Czech history, with which he wanted to raise national awareness.
Works in German
- Hugo Salus (ed.): Florence in the snow. Novellas . Rikola Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna 1922.
- Fenicien's sin. Novellas . Haas & Grabherr Publishing House, Augsburg 1921.
- Asenat. King Kofétua . Josef Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1920.
- Christ of the Light. El Cristo de la Luz. Toledan legend . Josef Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1919.
- Shimmering stars. Novel from Japan's past . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1914.
- Jan Maria Plojhar . Trans. V. Friedrich Hlavác. 2 vols. Prague, J. Otto, 1908
- Novel of the loyal friendship between the knights Amis and Amil . J. Otto, Prague 1904.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zeyer, Julius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1890, p. 353 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Julius Zeyer in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Julius Zeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Novel of the loyal friendship of the knights Amis and Amil , facsimile on kramerius5.nkp.cz, accessed on May 1, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeyer, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer, poet and dramaturge of German-French descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1901 |
| Place of death | Prague |