Simon German

Simon Deutsch (* 1822 in Nikolsburg , Moravia ; † March 24, 1877 in Constantinople ) was a revolutionary socialist after a short career as a scholar of Judaism and bibliographer .

Life

His parents came from Nikolsburg and he spent his youth in Moravia , where he was preparing for the rabbinate. During this time he also learned German, but after Moritz Steinschneider , Leopold Zunz and Moritz Hartmann with a distinct Jewish accent. Around 1840 he was a candidate for the rabbinate, and in 1842 he attended courses in philosophy and education.

In the pre-March period he cataloged the Hebrew manuscripts of the kk Hofbibliothek Wien with the orientalist Albrecht Krafft and published a catalog of them in 1847.

He took an active part in the Vienna Revolution of 1848/49, took sides for his Jewish co-religionists and signed appeals a. a. for Fenner von Fenneberg . Sentenced to death in Vienna in 1849, but managed to escape by escaping. He was able to develop a successful commercial activity abroad.

During the Franco-Prussian War (70/71) he lived in Vienna, where he carried out eager propaganda for the French. In 1872 Count Harry von Arnim reported to Bismarck that he was one of the most important links between the German and French democratic press and a dangerous political intermediary.

In 1871 he reappeared in Paris, he was involved in the Paris Commune uprising , again sentenced to death, where he was now saved by the intervention of the Austrian ambassador. Then he went to Constantinople and wrote a draft constitution for the Ottoman Empire.

At the beginning of 1874 he wrote to Moses Hess and in September of the same year met Karl Marx and his daughter Eleanor Marx during a cure in Karlsbad and entered into correspondence with him.

He was a friend of Gambetta , a patron of the Young Turks and one of the most ardent members of the Omladina . After he was proposed as governor of Bosnia by devoted newspapers in 1877 , he died soon after in the Mis-siri's Hotel in Constantinople.

As an author, he worked for the Sippurim saga collection .

Works (selection)

Albrecht Krafft, Simon Deutsch: The handwritten Hebrew works of the Imperial and Royal Court Library in Vienna. Vienna 1847 ( books.google.de digitized version).
Open letter to the Jews . Print by U. Klopf sen. and A. Eurich, Vienna March 26, 1848. Digitized
Clubb Der Deutsche Adler (Vienna), M. Bruk, Simon Deutsch, Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt, Adolph Ungár, Johann Nepomuk Bachmayr : The German eagle to the German inhabitants of all provinces of Austria: In the name of God and the holy religion! Beloved brothers and fellow citizens! We ask and swear to you, do not think before you read these lines ... Vienna 1848 digitized
The last days and the death of Robert Blum . A memorandum to the German people from the Viennese refugees : Deutsch, Adolf Franckel, Gritzner jun., Kolisch and Pokorny. Leipzig 1848. Digitized
Franz Gräffer , Simon Deutsch (ed.): Jüdischer Plutarch or biographical lexicon of the most striking men and women of Jewish descent. Vienna 1848 (Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1975).

literature

Paul Schulz: Marginalia about the Viennese Revolution of 1848, and its important consequences in the latest time. Leipzig 1856 ( books.google.de digitized version).
Constantin von Wurzbach : German, Simon . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 266 f. ( Digitized version ).
German, Simon . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 2 : Bohacz – Ebhardt . KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-23162-8 , p. 507 .
Michael L. Miller: From liberal nationalism to cosmopolitan patriotism: Simon Deutsch and 1848ers in exile . In: European Review of History. Revue europeenne d'histoire . Vol. 17, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 379-393.

Individual evidence

↑ "And so it went out at the beautiful man's age of 45 years, on February 21st, 1877". In: Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1975, p. 231.
^ Isidore Singer , A. Rhine: GERMAN, SIMON. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 549 . Obituary in the Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, v. April 5, 1877, p. 13 .
^ Peter Landesmann: Rabbi from Vienna. P. 57 ( books.google.com ).
^ Fenner von Fenneberg: History of the October days in Vienna. Part 2, Leipzig 1849, p. 165 ( books.google.de ).
^ German to Hess January 3, 1874. Printed in: Edmund Silberner : Moses Hess Briefwechsel. Danubia-Verlag Universitätsbuchhandlung, Vienna 1959, p. 635.
^ German to Marx October 19, 1874 and December 30, 1874 ( IISG D 1023, 1024) and Marx to Deutsch January 20, 1875
^ The Athenaeum , London 1877, p. 514

personal data
SURNAME	German, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nikolsburg , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1877
Place of death	Constantinople

[1] "And so it went out at the beautiful man's age of 45 years, on February 21st, 1877". In: Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1975, p. 231.

[2] Isidore Singer , A. Rhine: GERMAN, SIMON. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 549 . Obituary in the Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, v. April 5, 1877, p. 13 .

[3] Peter Landesmann: Rabbi from Vienna. P. 57 ( books.google.com ).

[4] Fenner von Fenneberg: History of the October days in Vienna. Part 2, Leipzig 1849, p. 165 ( books.google.de ).

[5] German to Hess January 3, 1874. Printed in: Edmund Silberner : Moses Hess Briefwechsel. Danubia-Verlag Universitätsbuchhandlung, Vienna 1959, p. 635.

[6] German to Marx October 19, 1874 and December 30, 1874 ( IISG D 1023, 1024) and Marx to Deutsch January 20, 1875

[7] The Athenaeum , London 1877, p. 514