Wilhelm Turteltaub

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Wilhelm Turteltaub (born March 25, 1816 in Rzeszów ; † after 1859 ) was an Austrian doctor and writer.

life and work

Wilhelm Turteltaub came from a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia , his father was a doctor in Rzeszów. He started Latin school at the age of nine and spent his free time studying foreign languages ​​and music. During a visit to Lviv he got to know the theater and got access to the library of the district commissioner Franz Seraph von Stadion , who later became governor of Galicia. He wrote his first pieces at the age of 12, began studying philosophy in 1830, and at the end of 1832 came to Vienna at the age of 17 to study medicine. His humorous and satirical works published soon in the Wanderer , the collector and the Wiener Theater Zeitung of Adolf Bäuerle , 1835 his first book was published in Wiener Fresco sketches . During this time he made the acquaintance of Moritz Gottlieb Saphir , for whose magazine Der Humorist he was a permanent employee. Saphir also gave him access to the Viennese literary gatherings. Turteltaub wrote the book Saphiriana through his mentor . Anecdotes, jokes and character traits from the life of MG Saphir, which was published by Karafiat in Brno in 1874 - so possibly after his death.

In 1836, at the age of 20, he wrote his first play Der Nachtwandler bei Tage , which was well received by the audience at the Leopoldstadt Theater . His first local farce was titled Only One Solves the Spell or Who's Happy? , with the music of Michael Hebenstreit . The piece had great success at home and abroad and was published by the Johann Baptist Wallishauser publishing house in Vienna. In Turteltaub's collective work Wiener Volksbühne; Taschenbuch localer Spiele (1838), also printed by Wallishauser, it was printed together with Johann Nestroys Eulenspiegel or Schabernack über Schabernack (1835) and others. His next farce With or without magic , however, suffered total diarrhea in the Josefstädter Theater .

Wilhelm Turteltaub received his doctorate in medicine in 1840, married the daughter of the counselor Claar in Lemberg in the same year, and returned to Rzeszów in 1841 as a city ​​physician . In addition to his many years of work as a doctor, he continued to write plays from time to time, including Der Abenteurer , Der Jugendfreund and Das Daguerrotype , all performed in Vienna. After the revolutionary year of 1848 , no more works by him have survived.

In the second half of the 19th century, the influences of the Haskala (השכלה Jewish Enlightenment between 1770 and 1880) became increasingly noticeable in the city of Rzeszów. One of the most famous proponents of this movement in Galicia was Dr. Wilhelm Turteltaub.

In 1843 he was awarded the Golden Civil Merit Medal with the ribbon for his successful work as a city physician . The exact time of his death can no longer be determined, but must have been after 1859, as Wilhelm Turteltaub's publication of the Viennese theater magazine Wiener Volksbühne for this year is documented.

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  1. ^ Complete facsimile of the Vienna Volksbühne; Paperback localer games. (accessed on July 14, 2014)
  2. ↑ daguerreotype = photographer or photography in the 19th century, see daguerreotype
personal data
SURNAME Lovebird, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzeszów
DATE OF DEATH after 1859