Moritz Rappaport

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Moriz Rappaport
Moritz Rappaport's grave in the family crypt in Vienna's central cemetery

Moritz Rappaport , also Moriz, (born January 19, 1808 in Lemberg , Austrian Empire ; died May 28, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian doctor, journalist and writer in Galicia .

Life

Moritz Rappaport was a younger cousin of the Prague rabbi Solomon Judah Löb Rapoport (1790-1867). His father Salomon Simche Rappaport belonged to Maskilim and Reform Judaism , his mother Eva Schohem, however, to Orthodox Judaism , so that there were disputes at home about his upbringing. Rappaport attended school in Lemberg until 1822 and moved with the family to Vienna , where he was accepted into the Schottengymnasium . Under the supervision of Leo Herz and the pressure of his classmates, he had to shed his Polish and Yiddish accent there. From 1829 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and the University of Pest and received his doctorate in 1833. He settled in Lviv as a doctor and soon became primary doctor and director of the Israelite hospital. He was an active member of Lviv's Jewish community and was also a member of the city council.

Rappaport founded the reading sheets for town and country in 1841 to promote culture in art, science and life as a supplement to the official Lemberger political newspaper and also edited this until 1848. For the reading sheets he was able to contribute articles by Anastasius Grün , Barbara Elisabeth Glück , L. A. Frankl and Win Constantin von Wurzbach . His own poems, occasional poems and short stories appeared under the pseudonym Max Reinau. He wrote the poems of Moses with educational intent . Epic Poem (1842), Hebrew Chants. Metrically reproduced (1860) and Bajazzo (1863). In the revolutionary year of 1848 he published the first censorship-free poem in Galicia: Constitutional Consecration and Amnesty and wrote for Max Letteris in his short-lived Austrian Central Organ for Freedom of Belief, Culture, History and Literature of the Jews . Rappaport translated contemporary Polish poetry and also wrote in Polish, which, with the Galician compromise, prevailed among the Jewish bourgeoisie.

Between 1872 and 1878 he lived in Vienna, where his blindness began, which was complete in 1878. For the 70th birthday of his student friend L. A. Frankl in Vienna, he wrote the Fourteen Sonnets in 1880 .

Moritz Rappaport rests in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1, Group 6, Row 1, No. 9).

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  1. ^ A b c V. Suchy:  Moriz Rappaport. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 421.
  2. ↑ Catherine Krcal: Rappaport's Pagliacci . 2013, p. 176
  3. ↑ Catherine Krcal: Rappaport's Pagliacci . 2013, p. 186
  4. ^ Rappaport, Moritz. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1093 (entry 8378).
  5. ↑ Catherine Krcal: Rappaport's Pagliacci . 2013, p. 175
  6. ↑ Herlinde Aichner: The revolution of 1848 and the question of Jewish nationality: LA Frankl and M. Rappaport . 2001, p. 336
  7. ↑ Catherine Krcal: Rappaport's Pagliacci . 2013, p. 173ff
personal data
SURNAME Rappaport, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rappaport, Moriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemberg , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1880
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary