Richard Huldschiner

Richard Huldschiner (1912)

Richard Huldschiner (born July 11, 1872 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia , † May 20, 1931 in Innsbruck ) was a German - Austrian doctor and writer .

Life

Huldschiner came from a Jewish family. His father was a merchant from Gleiwitz, his mother the daughter of a Bolzano banker . Huldschiner grew up in Bozen from 1873 and attended elementary school there . From 1882 he lived with an uncle in his hometown Gleiwitz, where he was a student of a grammar school . After 1891, the matriculation examination had taken off, he completed a study of medicine at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Würzburg . 1895 doctorate he at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a work in the field of gynecology for the doctor of medicine . He then worked as an assistant doctor in Vienna and in Berlin with Professors Hermann Senator and Carl Posner . In 1898 Huldschiner established himself as a general practitioner in Hamburg ; Every year he spent his summer holidays in South Tyrol . In addition to his medical work, Huldschiner began writing literary works during his Hamburg years. In 1912 he took part as a ship's doctor on an extensive overseas voyage that took him to Central America , North and East Africa, as well as Japan and China . From 1913 he lived as a freelance writer in Bolzano.

At the beginning of the First World War, Huldschiner worked as a doctor in hospitals in Trento and Bozen and from 1915 on with a battalion of the Standschützen in Bozen. In 1916 he was awarded the Golden Cross of Bravery with the crown on a ribbon . From November 1918 to March 1919 he was in Italian captivity . Since the Italian authorities refused him a practice as a doctor in Bolzano after his release, Huldschiner turned to journalism ; he mainly worked as a correspondent for the Berliner Vossische Zeitung . From 1929 he lived in Innsbruck.

Huldschiner's literary work consists mainly of novels and stories that are often set in the author's South Tyrolean homeland.

Huldschiner, Richard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 271-280.
Andreas Micheli: Between Sciliar and Zion. Richard Huldschiner's autobiographical small-town novel "The Quiet City" and its ambivalent view of home, identity and landscape. In: The Sciliar . Vol. 48 (2014), No. 5, pp. 48-71.
Andreas Micheli: "... home that is not my home ...". The German-Jewish writer and doctor Richard Huldschiner. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2018 (dissertation, University of Innsbruck, 2017).

personal data
SURNAME	Huldschiner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1931
Place of death	innsbruck