Wilhelm Goldbaum

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Wilhelm Goldbaum

Wilhelm Goldbaum (born January 6, 1843 in Kempen , Kingdom of Prussia ; died August 28, 1912 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was a German-Austrian writer, journalist and translator.

Life

Goldbaum first studied law and philosophy, including in Breslau and Berlin . While still a student, he wrote sketches of cultural history for various newspapers. In 1869 he became a permanent editor of the Posener Zeitung , before he was called to Vienna in 1872, where he became editor of the Neue Freie Presse . He wrote mainly editorials on foreign policy, feature sections and book reviews. He was also an employee of the Westermann'schen monthly magazine , the present , the gazebo , the national newspaper and the world . He has published several books on cultural and literary history and has translated works by Henryk Sienkiewicz and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski from Polish into German.

Works (selection)

  • Remote cultures; Sketches and pictures. , Berlin, Hofmann, 1877
  • Literary Physiognomieen , Vienna, Prochaska, 1884
  • German Goethe Days , Budapest, Pester-Lloyd-Ges., 1899
translation
  • Without a heart by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Vienna and Teschen, 1884

literature

  • Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind: Life and Character Pictures from Past and Present by Adolph Kohut , Leipzig, Payne, 1900–1901, Vol. 2, pp. 149–150
  • Jewish Lexicon. An encyclopedic manual of Jewish knowledge in four volumes. Edited by Georg Herlitz and Bruno Kirschner, Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1928
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica. Judaism in the past and present. Vol. 7., Berlin, Eschkol, 1931
  • Goldbaum, Wilhelm. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 62-66.
  • Wilhelm Goldbaum , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, p. 886f.

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personal data
SURNAME Goldbaum, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1912
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary