Viktor Brod

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Viktor Brod (born September 27, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 22, 1969 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Viktor Brod was the son of Jakob Brod (1857–1929), a co-founder of the Arbeiter-Zeitung , and Betty Brod (1869–1953). He attended the State High School in Vienna's 6th district and from 1913 studied philosophy, psychology and history at the University of Vienna. Since 1923 he was married to the philosopher and yoga teacher Susanne Schmida .

Brod was drafted as a one-year-old volunteer in 1915 and was taken prisoner by Russia in Przemyśl in March 1915 , which lasted until October 1920. After his return, he resumed studying philosophy with Robert Reininger , worked for the General Workers', Sickness and Benefit Fund in Vienna, and received his doctorate in 1926 with his thesis The Thought of Transformation in Ethics . He then worked as a freelance language and rhetoric teacher and as a translator. Brod conducted research in the philosophical and sociological field, his work remained largely unpublished. After Austria's annexation in 1938, he was initially protected because he was married to a non-Jewish woman. He fled to Trieste in 1942 and was deported by the Italians to the Ferramonti labor camp in Calabria , where he was liberated by the US Army in September 1943, for whom he then worked as a translator. In September 1945 he returned to Vienna and worked as a translator again.

Fonts (selection)

  • The I-you relationship as the basis of ethics . Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1967
  • Sunna Brod-Schmida (Ed.): What language is : Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1971
  • Benjamin Farrington : The science of the Greeks and its meaning for us: From Thales to Aristotle . Translation from English Viktor Brod. Vienna: New Austria, 1947
  • John Boyd Orr : Food and People . Translation from English Viktor Brod. Vienna: New Austria, 1948

literature

  • Brod, Viktor. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 144-145.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 172 (entry 1298).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Schmida in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; Heuer says the marriage date is 1914
personal data
SURNAME Brod, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 1969
Place of death Vienna