Samuel Lublinski

Julius Tischmeyer: Samuel Lublinski

Samuel Lublinski (born February 18, 1868 in Johannisburg , East Prussia , † December 26, 1910 in Weimar ) was a German writer , literary historian , critic and religious philosopher who worked mainly in Berlin . He is considered a pioneer of the sociology of literature in Germany.

Life

Samuel Lublinski came from a German-Jewish family and was the son of a businessman. He worked as a bookseller for many years and wrote a multi-volume literary history that dealt with 19th century German literature and analyzed its political and social aspects in particular ( literature and society in the 19th century , 1899 f.).

By 1900 at the latest, he devoted himself entirely to his literary inclinations, became a well-known critic and at the same time tried his hand at being a classicist dramatist. The Balance of Modernity (1904) and The Outcome of Modernity (1909) were his personal accounts of naturalism and neo-romanticism .

His theories on the Jesus myth (Lublinski denied the existence of Jesus), which he wanted to derive from a merging of late Judaism with Oriental and Hellenistic mystery cults ( The Origin of Christianity ... and The Becoming Dogma ... , both of which acquired a certain religious historical significance) acquired a certain significance 1910).

Samuel Lublinski was initially a staunch supporter of Zionism and in the first few years a permanent collaborator in the world (pseudonym: Salomo Liebhardt ), but then withdrew from working on the world when he realized that he was "more of a German than a thoroughbred Jew" ; he felt himself to be a German “out of psychological compulsion”, not out of “theoretical conviction”, had a positive attitude towards Zionism, but excluded for himself ever being able to go to Palestine. On the other hand, he did not want to assimilate either (letters to Theodor Herzl from May 22nd and 26th, 1899). Since 1901, however, he professed to be assimilated.

He was one of the first to recognize the literary importance of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks . In the Berliner Tageblatt of September 13, 1902, he wrote that this book will remain an indestructible book that, gradually and irresistibly overwhelming, will grow over time and will be read by many generations.

Theodor Lessing had caused a literary scandal in 1910 with an extremely sharp satire, which tried to destroy the critic Samuel Lublinski based on his not very beautiful outward figure and to which Thomas Mann reacted almost as sharply .

Works (selection)

Anti-Semitism , 1896
Jewish characters at Grillparzer, Hebbel and Otto Ludwig. Literary studies , Berlin 1899
Literature and Society in the 19th Century , 4 volumes, Berlin 1899–1900
Charles Darwin. An Apology and a Criticism , Leipzig undated (approx. 1900)
The Emperor , 1901 (tragedy)
Failed , 1901 (novellas)
The emergence of Judaism. A sketch , Berlin 1903
The balance of modernity , Berlin 1904 (reprinted by Gotthart Wunberg bei Niemeyer, Tübingen 1974, ISBN 3-484-19029-9 )
From the unknown god. A building block , Dresden 1904
Friedrich Schiller. Its origin and its future , Berlin undated (1905)
Peter of Russia , 1906 (tragedy)
Humanity as a mystery , Jena 1907
Gunther and Brunhild , Berlin 1908 (drama)
Shakespeare's Problem in Hamlet , Leipzig 1908
The exit of modernity. A book of the opposition , Dresden 1909 (reprinted by Gotthart Wunberg bei Niemeyer, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 3-484-19040-X )
The emergence of Christianity from ancient culture , Jena 1910
The emerging dogma of the life of Jesus , Jena 1910
False evidence for the existence of the human being Jesus , Leipzig 1910
Emperor and Chancellor , Leipzig 1910 (tragedy)
Teresa and Wolfgang , Berlin 1912
Postponed writings , Munich 1914

Literature (selection)

Kirstin von Glasow: Lublinski, Samuel. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01682-X , pp. 401-403 (further literature mentioned there).
Renate Heuer: Lublinski, Samuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 266 f. ( Digitized version ).
Theodor Lessing : Samuel takes stock and Tomi milks the moral cow or two kings fall. A warning to Germans to write satires. By Theodor Lessing. With literary contributions by Thomas Mann, Samuel Lublinski and the forty most moral German poets and thinkers . Verlag des Antirüpel, Hannover 1910 ( PDF on Commons )
Christine Magerski : Observer of Modernity: Samuel Lublinski . In: Zagreb Germanistic Contributions , issue 19/2010, pp. 1–26.
Salomon Wininger , Great Jewish National Biography , Vol. IV, p. 195
Jewish Lexicon . Vol. III, Berlin 1927, p. 1241

Individual evidence

^ Christine Magerski: The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871. Berlin modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of literary sociology . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-35101-2 , p. 95-125 .
↑ Samuel draws the balance and Tomi milks the moral cow or two kings fall. A warning to Germans to write satires. By Theodor Lessing. With literary contributions by Thomas Mann, Samuel Lublinski and the forty most moral German poets and thinkers , Verlag des Antirüpel, Hannover 1910
↑ In his reply to Lessing - here quoted from Hans Eggert Schröder, Theodor Lessings autobiographical writings. A commentary , Bonn 1970, page 61 (cf. p. 125 f.) - Thomas Mann had stated at various points: “We see a 'small, spherical figure', a 'gesticulating', 'tumbling' something 'shortened' Seeking to make 'erratic legs' visible, a 'fat little synagogue' that stretches its 'spongy tummy like the apse far into the outside world', a 'little man' who 'doesn't see, can't hear, doesn't taste, doesn't smell', but only 'talks and writes', a 'birth', 'naively muddling into the room', 'muddling' with his legs, dropping 'word worms' to the right and left, and his cradle to 'tiller in poses' or to Johannesburg had admitted - Herr Lessing did not know that exactly. This 'kneeling', 'waddling', 'dripping' and repeatedly muttering 'little baby' or 'Talmudic baby with hypertrophically degenerate writing and speaking centers' that 'his dear father accidentally created on a beautiful scrapbook instead of a rabbinical pamphlet', and that is nursed by his little sister, and is washed once on the high holidays - it 'chews', 'spits' and 'rolls', 'literature'; there is 'a literary fountain', 'banners' of themselves with 'symbolism', 'neo-romanticism', 'idealism', with 'differentiation', 'own note' and 'personality', with 'clod of earth', 'rootedness' and 'local color' ', it' sniffs for literary occasions when it can knock off its water ', it' lifts its literary leg 'to name Ibsen,' the Magus from the north 'and' Bismarck the oak in the Sachsenwald '; ... This is how it goes with silly diminutive, with mocking 'very much', 'very well' and 'very much like' with dull and tireless repetitions of the word 'muckling' for eight pages. ... But the whole thing, Mr. Lessing gives us to understand, is firstly the portrait of Mr. Samuel Lublinski and also means the 'writing type', which Mr. Lessing calls the 'esprit-Jewish'. "
↑ Provoked a reply by Achad Haam in 1897 , who described Lublinski's position as Jewish "nationalism for the purpose of assimilation" ( Haschiloach , 1897).

personal data
SURNAME	Lublinski, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, critic and religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Johannisburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 1910
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Christine Magerski: The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871. Berlin modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of literary sociology . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-35101-2 , p. 95-125 .

[2] Samuel draws the balance and Tomi milks the moral cow or two kings fall. A warning to Germans to write satires. By Theodor Lessing. With literary contributions by Thomas Mann, Samuel Lublinski and the forty most moral German poets and thinkers , Verlag des Antirüpel, Hannover 1910

[3] In his reply to Lessing - here quoted from Hans Eggert Schröder, Theodor Lessings autobiographical writings. A commentary , Bonn 1970, page 61 (cf. p. 125 f.) - Thomas Mann had stated at various points: “We see a 'small, spherical figure', a 'gesticulating', 'tumbling' something 'shortened' Seeking to make 'erratic legs' visible, a 'fat little synagogue' that stretches its 'spongy tummy like the apse far into the outside world', a 'little man' who 'doesn't see, can't hear, doesn't taste, doesn't smell', but only 'talks and writes', a 'birth', 'naively muddling into the room', 'muddling' with his legs, dropping 'word worms' to the right and left, and his cradle to 'tiller in poses' or to Johannesburg had admitted - Herr Lessing did not know that exactly. This 'kneeling', 'waddling', 'dripping' and repeatedly muttering 'little baby' or 'Talmudic baby with hypertrophically degenerate writing and speaking centers' that 'his dear father accidentally created on a beautiful scrapbook instead of a rabbinical pamphlet', and that is nursed by his little sister, and is washed once on the high holidays - it 'chews', 'spits' and 'rolls', 'literature'; there is 'a literary fountain', 'banners' of themselves with 'symbolism', 'neo-romanticism', 'idealism', with 'differentiation', 'own note' and 'personality', with 'clod of earth', 'rootedness' and 'local color' ', it' sniffs for literary occasions when it can knock off its water ', it' lifts its literary leg 'to name Ibsen,' the Magus from the north 'and' Bismarck the oak in the Sachsenwald '; ... This is how it goes with silly diminutive, with mocking 'very much', 'very well' and 'very much like' with dull and tireless repetitions of the word 'muckling' for eight pages. ... But the whole thing, Mr. Lessing gives us to understand, is firstly the portrait of Mr. Samuel Lublinski and also means the 'writing type', which Mr. Lessing calls the 'esprit-Jewish'. "

[4] Provoked a reply by Achad Haam in 1897 , who described Lublinski's position as Jewish "nationalism for the purpose of assimilation" ( Haschiloach , 1897).