Ephraim Moses cow

Ephraim Moses Cow ( Hebrew אפרים משה קוה; born April 10, 1731 in Breslau ; died April 3, 1790 ibid) was a German-Jewish poet and merchant.

Life

After a traditional Jewish education, Ephraim Moses Kuh resisted his father's wish to train as a rabbi . In 1763 he left his native city of Breslau and went to Berlin to the house of his close relative, the financier Veitel Heine Ephraim . He made the acquaintance of Lessing , Mendelssohn , Ramler and other Berlin scholars and poets. He now devoted himself to poetry and neglected business. Between 1768 and 1770 he made a trip to Europe and then returned to Breslau. For six years he suffered from a mental illness that allowed him to continue to write poetry in lucid moments. In 1786 he suffered a stroke . He died in Breslau on April 3, 1790.

Ephraim Moses Kuh left behind more than 5000 poems that were given to his friend Karl Wilhelm Ramler. A selection of these was published in Zurich in 1792. Berthold Auerbach made Kuh the title hero in his novel Poet and Merchant .

Works

• Poems left behind. With a preface by Moses Hirschel . Zurich 1792, digitized .
• Epigrams from Ephraim Moses Cow. Selection edited and introduced biographically and critically by Theodor Seemann. Dresden 1872.

literature

• Jakob Franck :  cow, Ephraim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 317 f.
• Meyer Kayserling : The poet Moses Kuh. A contribution to the history of German literature. Berlin 1864, digitized .
• Sol Liptzin:  COW, EPHRAIM MOSES. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 12, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865940-4 , pp. 380-381 (English).
• Hans Rhotert : Ephraim Moses Cow. Munich 1927.
• Regina Maria Seitz: Secret texts: Criticism of the Enlightenment in Mendelssohn, Behr, Maimon and Kuh. Ann Arbor 1999.
• Dominica Volkert: cow, Ephraim Moses. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, Volume 7, p. 116 f.
• Berthold Auerbach: poet and merchant. A painting of life. Novel. Stuttgart 1840, digitized
• Ephraim Moses cow. In: Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon. Volume 2, Amsterdam 1809, pp. 337-339.
• Cow, Ephraim Moses. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 398-402.
• Hans Otto Horch, Eva Varga: cow, Ephraim Moses. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 313f.

Web links

• Gotthard Deutsch , Alfred Feilchenfeld:  KUH, EPHRAIM MOSES. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.