Leopold Kompert

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Leopold Kompert (born May 15, 1822 in Münchengrätz , Austrian Empire ; died November 23, 1886 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian-Jewish narrator and publicist, one of the first German writers of ghetto novellas (1848).

Life

Kompert, the son of a wool merchant, grew up in the Judengasse in Münchengrätz and attended the Piarist grammar school in Jungbunzlau from 1832 to 1836 . Here was one of Moritz Hartmann to his classmates. In 1836 he went to high school in Prague, passed the Abitur and studied philosophy here until 1838. From 1840 he made literary contributions to fiction magazines. From 1838 to 1840 he lived as court master in Vienna and maintained contact with a circle of artists who also included Hartmann and Julius Schindler . Kompert stayed in Hungary for a long time in 1840 and in 1841 worked for the “Preßburger Zeitung” in Pressburg . From 1843 to 1847 he was the educator of Count Andrássy's children . In 1847 Kompert returned to Vienna to study medicine, but was again directed to the field of journalism by the revolutionary events of 1848: From 1848 to 1852 he was the features editor and publisher of "Österreichischer Lloyd". In 1852 he gave up editing the newspaper, lived for years as an educator in the house of the Prussian Consul General von Goldschmidt (authorized signatory of the Viennese banking house SM v. Rothschild ), after his marriage (1857) with Marie Pollak as an employee of the Austrian credit bank, from 1861 as a freelancer Writer in Vienna. Kompert took as an author now a respected position in the public one: in 1857, he was from the University of Jena , the honorary doctorate awarded. In 1868 he was appointed to the government council and in 1870 to the district school council. In 1876 he became the state school councilor for Lower Austria. Kompert was strongly committed to the German Schiller Foundation , whose Vienna branch he co-founded. Since 1873 he was also a member of the board of directors of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna.

Grave of Leopold Kompert and his wife Marie in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Kompert was one of many well-known Jewish writers in Central Europe who encouraged Jews to emigrate to the United States in the period after the Napoleonic Wars , which was marked by anti-Semitic tendencies .

In 1863 Kompert published an article by Heinrich Graetz about messianism in the “Yearbook for Israelites” , which is why the “Kompert Trial” against him for blasphemy took place in Vienna. Lazar Horowitz and Isaak Mannheimer were called in as experts.

As a member of the Vienna City Council (1873–1881) and “honorary director for the school sector of the Jewish community in Vienna ”, he campaigned for assimilation and integration. Heinrich Laube , Ferdinand Kürnberger and Emil Kuh were among his friends .

In 1884 he was honored by the Emperor with the title of "Government Councilor" in recognition of his literary services and his work for the common good .

His ghetto stories were translated into other languages ​​while he was still alive.

After his death, Leopold Kompert was buried in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 1955, Kompertgasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

Works

First editions

The village walker ; A lost one ; Trenderl digitized
  • At the plow. A story (novel, 2 volumes), Berlin: Franz Duncker 1855
  • Corporal Spitz In: Yearbook for Israelites to the year 5620 (1859/60). Vienna: 1859, pp. 209–245
  • Described in: Illustrirtes Israelitisches Jahrbuch für Ernst und Scherz to the year 5620 (1859/60). Tirnau and Pest 1859, pp. 85-89
  • New stories from the ghetto (short stories, 2 volumes), Prague: Kober and Margrave 1860
Eisik's glasses ; Horsehair ; The silent woman ; The Min ; Franzefuß ; The princess ; Julius Arnsteiner's examination
The season ; The soul catcher ; God's Acceptor ; The mother's eyes ; Christian and Lea ; The two swords ; The carbuncle
  • How to get married In: Yearbook for Israelites to the year 5626 (1865/66). Vienna 1866, pp. 244–352
  • Like dog and cat In: Yearbook for Israelites to the year 5627 (1866/67). Vienna 1867, pp. 179–190
  • Die Schwärmerin In: Concordia calendar for the year 1869. Vienna: 1969, pp. 39–66
  • Between ruins. Novel (3 volumes), Berlin: Otto Janke, 1875
  • Franzi and Heini (novel), 1881

further editions (selection)

  • Complete works , ed. Stefan Hock, 10 volumes 1906 (with biography) digitized Vol.1 to Bd.10
  • A lost one . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 8. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 95-309. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Ghetto Stories , ed. by Burkhard Bittrich, 1988
  • The village walker. Stories from the Ghetto , ed. by Florian Krobb, 1997 digitized

literature

Web links

Commons : Leopold Kompert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preßburger Zeitung see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Pressburger Zeitung
  2. ↑ György Andrássy see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Andrássy György
personal data
SURNAME Kompert, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchengrätz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1886
Place of death Vienna