Max Messer (writer)
Max Messer (born July 7, 1875 in Vienna ; † December 25, 1930 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and writer. He belonged to the Jung Wien district .
Life
Messer grew up as a child of Jewish parents - Hersch (Hermann) and Reize (Rosa), née Poper - in Vienna. In 1899 he converted to the Protestant faith. He studied law at the University of Vienna . After passing his exams, he opened his own law firm in Vienna.
He was a member of the Jung Wien writers' group and is attributed to them, but is largely forgotten nowadays. Between 1895 and 1904, Messer was the editor of literary criticism at the weekly Die Zeit , which was co-edited by Hermann Bahr . As a writer, he published several books between 1899 and 1907; In addition to essays critical of literature, there are also works with a philosophical content (pantheistic point of view), including one about Max Stirner . He later wrote for the Neue Freie Presse , but did not publish anything major.
Arthur Schnitzler used an event from Messer's life in his - fragmentary - play Das Wort .
Works
- Modern Soul (1899)
- Viennese strolling stories (1900)
- Variété des Geistes (1902)
- Max Stirner (1904)
literature
- Rudolf Eisler : Philosophers Lexicon. Lives, works and teachings of the thinkers. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1912.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Messer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zeno.org entry
- Works by Max Messer in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8B23-Y9K?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D6C% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344424301: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register F 1874-1877 March> image 107 of 323; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Austria.
- ↑ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1930-12-28, page 22. Retrieved on July 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [among others] 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 407.
- ↑ Eisler 1912, p. 469, see also Max Stirner online
- ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Diary. In: https://schnitzler-tagebuch.acdh.oeaw.ac.at . Retrieved July 5, 2091 .
KaCategory: Graduates from the University of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knife, max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messer, Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1930 |
| Place of death | Vienna |