Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
Salomon Hermann Mosenthal , from 1871 Knight von Mosenthal (born January 14, 1821 in Kassel , Electorate of Hesse ; † February 17, 1877 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was a German playwright and librettist.
Life
Mosenthal came from an impoverished German-Jewish merchant family, had been literary since his school days and moved to Vienna in 1842. In the year of the March Revolution in 1848, he published his popular play Deborah , which was premiered in Hamburg in 1849 and brought the poet a worldwide success. His most popular drama depicts the unhappy love of a young, beautiful Jewish woman for a Christian and primarily addresses the question of whether and how the Christian majority and the Jewish minority could live together in an enlightened state:
- “And become Christian and Jew - be human.
- If brotherly love is our only faith,
- Then the hour of the Messiah will come. " ( Deborah , 4th act, 1st appearance)
Mosenthal's best-known work is still his libretto for Otto Nicolai's comic opera The Merry Women of Windsor .
His international popularity opened Salomon Herrmann Mosenthal the door to an unusually successful for a Jew of his time career: in 1849 he received in absentia doctorate in University of Marburg due to a submission of his treatise entitled On the direction of poetry in ancient and modern times and In recognition of his already published works, in 1850 Mosenthal was accepted into the ministerial civil service, in 1867 he received the title of Imperial Councilor, four years later the Order of the Iron Crown and the title of Knight.
In 1877 Salomon Hermann Ritter von Mosenthal died in Vienna at the age of 56 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Währing . In 1888 the Mosenthalweg in Vienna- Währing (18th district) was named after him.
family
In 1851 he married Lina von Weil († 1861), a daughter of the publicist Karl von Weil (1806–1878).
Works (in selection)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor , around 1845.
- The Dutchman Michel , 1846.
- Deborah , 1848 ( digitized ).
- Cäcilia von Albano , 1849 ( digitized version ).
- Citizen and Molly. A German Poet's Life , 1850.
- The Sonnwendhof , 1854.
- Collected Poems , 1866 ( digitized version ).
- The Queen of Sheba , 1875.
- Stories from Jewish Family Life , 1878 ( digitized version of the 1913 edition under the title Pictures from Jewish Family Life ).
literature
- Karl-Friedrich Dürr : Operas based on literary models. Shakespeare's The merry wives of Windsor in the settings by Mosenthal-Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor u. Boito-Verdi: Falstaff. A contribution on the topic of genre transformation (= Stuttgart work on German studies; 62). Heinz, Stuttgart 1979.
- Reinhart Meyer : Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 173-175 ( digitized version ).
- Anton Schönbach : Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 368-371.
- Hartmut Wecker: "ob elegans ingenium ..." The doctoral process of the poet Salomon Hermann Mosenthal in Marburg. In: alma mater philippina, winter semester 1992, pp. 32–35.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, pp. 137–143 ( digitized version ).
- Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 148-160.
- Hans-Joachim Hahn: Deborah. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 2: Co-Ha. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02502-9 , pp. 74-77.
Web links
- Literature by and about Salomon Hermann Mosenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Salomon Hermann Mosenthal in the German Digital Library
- Works by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal at Zeno.org .
- Works by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Works by and about Salomon Hermann Mosenthal at Open Library
- Salomon Hermann Mosenthal in the Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann Ritter von (full name); Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kassel , Electorate of Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1877 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |