Sophie Jacot des Combes
Sophie Jacot des Combes (born November 11, 1879 in Erfurt , † 1941 near Cairo ) was a German-speaking writer and painter who became Swiss through her marriage but spent a large part of her life in Egypt .
Life
Sophie Jacot des Combes (often written as Descombes) grew up as Sophie Hildebrand in Erfurt in Thuringia. In Cairo she met the Swiss engineer Jaques Gustave Jacot Descombes, who had settled in Egypt, whom she married a short time later. The couple soon moved to Alexandria . Many members of the then very cosmopolitan higher society of Alexandria met in the Jacot Descombes house there. There was a lot of music made, people liked to talk about art and literature. During the First World War, Sophie Jacot des Combes lived with her two children near Zurich in Switzerland. During these years she published her first volume of poetry and her first story. Her later works, created after her return to Egypt, were also published by Swiss publishers. She died in a car accident near Cairo.
Works
Sophie Jacot des Combes published her first volume of poetry Allerhand Verse in 1916. Based on the story of Moses. A story from the legendary time of the people of Israel , which was published by Orell Füssli in Zurich in 1917 , she published Poems and Variations in 1922 , which included the poem “Time”. After the novel Annas Irrwege (1922), another volume of poetry followed in 1924 with New Poems and Transfers .
She later wrote the novel Women write themselves letters in 1930 (published by the German-Swiss publishing house), before the volume of poems Träume des Menschen appeared in 1933 .
Web links
- Thuringian places and their writers in Thuringian Literature Council
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacot des Combes, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss German-speaking writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1941 |
| Place of death | near Cairo |