Ludwig Eisenberg

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Ludwig Eisenberg

Ludwig Julius Eisenberg ( March 5, 1858 in Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia - January 25, 1910 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian writer and encyclopaedist .

Life

Eisenberg, son of the Prague manufacturer Eugen Eisenberg and his wife Emilie, grew up in Austria from 1860 on. He studied natural sciences (chemistry) at the universities of Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, Jena and Göttingen. After his doctorate as Dr. phil. in Göttingen he worked as a chemist. He then worked from 1886 to 1891 as an employee of the Austro-Hungarian State Railways. As early as 1886 he worked as an editor for the “Allgemeine Kunstchronik” and other domestic and foreign newspapers. From 1891 he worked entirely as a freelance writer.

From 1889, initially until 1890 with Richard Groner , he was editor of “Das Geistige Wien. Lexicon of Artists and Writers ” . In 1903 he published the "Great Biographical Lexicon of the German Theaters in the XIX. Century " .

He married Amalie Kirsch (1862–1939) on March 7, 1882 in the City Temple of Vienna. He died in 1910 at the age of 51 and was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 22, number 23). An honorary grave is dedicated to him there.

Honors

Eisenberg was the holder of the Kuk Austrian Decoration for Art and Science .

The composer Johann Strauss , whose first published biography Eisenberg wrote (although it was flawed and influenced by his third wife Adele), thanked him for this with a letter dated October 10, 1894, which contains the following: “Heaven crowns your work with success. “Requests to comment on the Eisenberg biography, which, by the way, he had never read, Strauss dismissed u. a. with the words: "What is my business", which in turn became the title of another biography of him in the 1990s.

Eisenberggasse in Vienna's 23rd district has been named after him since 1960 .

Publications

Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century . Conrad Ekhof , Friederike Caroline Neuber , August Wilhelm Iffland , Friedrich Ludwig Schröder and Ludwig Devrient are gathered on the frontispiece .
  • The spiritual Vienna ZDB -ID 1308834-8
    • (with Richard Groner) 1st year 1889 The spiritual Vienna. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna
    • (with Richard Groner) 2nd year 1890 The spiritual Vienna. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers
    • 3rd year 1891 artist and writer lexicon Das Geistige Wien. Communications about Viennese architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers
    • 4th year 1892 “Supplement volume” artist and writer lexicon Das intellectual Vienna. Communications about Viennese architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers ( digitized )
    • 5th year 1893 The spiritual Vienna
      • Vol. 1: Belletristic-artistic part. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna
      • Vol. 2: Medicinal and scientific part. Announcements about Viennese writers and scholars in the field of medicine (along with animal medicine and pharmacy) and natural sciences ( digitized version )
  • Off the track. Serious and cheerful stories from railway life. Brockhausen, Vienna et al. 1891.
  • Johann Strauss. A picture of life. Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1894 ( digitized version )
  • Adolf Sonnenthal . A career as an artist as a contribution to modern Burgtheater history. With a foreword by Ludwig Speidel . Pierson, Dresden 1896 (2nd, increased edition as: Adolf Sonnenthal. An artistic career. As a contribution to the history of the modern Burgtheater. Ibid. 1900) ( digitized version )
  • Ludwig Eisenberg's Great Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List Publishing House , Leipzig 1903 ( archive.org contains approx. 3,000 artist biographies)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Eisenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Art Chronicle. Illustrated magazine for art, applied arts, music, theater and literature. ZDB ID 548851-5 .
  2. ↑ Marriage book Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna: registers of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde 1784-1911, district: Innere Stadt
  3. ↑ Group 22, No. 23.
  4. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg grave of honor in the Hietzinger Friedhof at viennatouristguide.at
  5. ^ Johann Strauss Society (ed.): Johann Strauss (Son) - Life and Work in Documents Volume VII, 1894. Schneider; Tutzing 1998. pp. 221/222. ISBN 3-7952-0928-5 .
  6. ↑ street lexicon on wien.gv.at .
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenberg, Ludwig Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1910
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary