Salomon Kohn (writer)
Salomon Kohn (born March 8, 1825 in Prague , Austrian Empire ; died November 6, 1904 in Prague) was an Austrian writer. He was best known for his Prague ghetto stories in several collections since 1883.
life and work
Kohn studied mathematics and astronomy. After that he worked as an observer in the Prague observatory . In 1863 he took over his father's business. His stories first appeared under "SK", later under their full name. Alongside Leopold Kompert , Kohn is one of the main representatives of German-Jewish narrative literature of his time. The precise descriptions of life in the Prague ghetto give his works a permanent place in the Jewish cultural history of East Central Europe.
Works (selection)
- Prague Ghetto Pictures. Stories. 1884; again Reclam, Leipzig 1921. Reclam's Universal Library , 1825 / 1826a
- Stories from the Bohemian Ghetto. 1896
- David Speyer. Novel. 1896
- Judith Loerrach. Novel. 1897
- Gabriel. 1898
- Gabriele von Glasenapp , Florian Krobb Ed .: Jewish historical images from Bohemia. Annotated edition of the historical stories by Salomon Kohn. Series: Conditio Judaica, 56. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005
- The Jews in Bohemia's Prehistory. In: Jewish stories from Prague. Edited by Christian Grüny. Vitalis, Prague 1997, pp. 17-24
literature
- V. Hanus: Kohn, Salomon. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 66 f. (Direct links on p. 66 , p. 67 ).
- Renate Heuer : Kohn, Salomon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 434 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Kohn, Solomon. Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , 14: Kest – Kulk. Ed. Archives Bibliographia Judaica. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 pp. 185-195
- Kohn, Solomon. 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. 713
- Florian Krobb: Kohn, Salomon . 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 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 p. 289f.
- Kohn, Solomon. In: Gabriele von Glasenapp, Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, pp. 937-950
Web links
- Literature by and about Salomon Kohn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.): Lexikon des Judentums. 2nd edition Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 Sp. 387
- ↑ see Sippurim , Kohn was repeatedly an author.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohn, Solomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1904 |
| Place of death | Prague |