- Heinrich Landesmann
Heinrich Landesmann, Hieronymus Lorm (
August 9 ,1821 ,Nikolsburg -December 4 ,1902 , atBrno ) was an Austrianpoet and philosophical writer.From his earliest childhood he was very
sick ly; at the age of fifteen hissight and hearing were almost completely destroyed; and later in life he became totally blind. He developed a form oftactile signing that was named after him.When but sixteen years old he contributed a number of
poem s to variousperiodical s. In 1843 he completed his first importantliterary production , "Abdul ," theMohammedan Faust legend , in fivecanto s (2nd ed. Berlin, 1852).His "
Wien's Poetische Schwingen und Federn " (Vienna , 1847) manifestedcritical acumen , but also a tinge of political acerbity in its attack on the censor system of the Austrian chancellor PrinceMetternich . His friends advised Landesmann to leave Vienna, and he went toBerlin , where he assumed thepseudonym "Hieronymus Lorm" in order to secure his family from possible trouble with the Viennese police. In Berlin he became a regular contributor to Kühne's "Europa." After therevolution of 1848 he returned to Vienna. In 1856 he married; in 1873 he removed toDresden ; and in 1892 he settled in Brünn. A sister of Landesmann's was the second wife ofBerthold Auerbach . Landesmann was distinctively alyric poet . The peculiar vein ofpessimism that runs through both his poetry and his prose writings has won for him the title of the "lyricalSchopenhauer ".Works
His more important works are:
* "
Ein Zögling des Jahres 1848 "
his firstnovel (3 vols., Vienna, 1855; 3d ed., 1863, under the title "Gabriel Solmar "), in which he treats, among other subjects, of the struggle of the modernJew against the prejudices of his fellow citizens.
* "Am Kamin " (2 vols., Berlin, 1856)
* "Erzählungen des Heimgekehrten " (Prague, 1858)
* "Intimes Leben " (ib. 1860)
* "Novellen " (2 vols., Vienna, 1864)
* "Gedichte " (Hamburg, 1870; 7th ed., 1894)
* "Philosophisch-Kritische Streifzüge " (Berlin, 1873)
* "Geflügelte Stunden. Leben, Kritik, Dichtung " (3 vols., Leipzig, 1875)
* the dramas "Das Forsthaus ", "Hieronymus Napoleon ", and "Die Alten und die Jungen " (1875)
* "Der Naturgenuss . Eine Philosophie der Jahreszeiten" (Berlin, 1876)
* "Neue Gedichte " (Dresden, 1877)
* "Todte Schuld " (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1878)
* "Späte Vergeltung " (2 vols., Hamburg, 1879)
* "Der Ehrliche Name " (2 vols., Dresden, 1880)
* "Wanderer's Ruhebank " (Leipzig, 1881)
* "Ausserhalb der Gesellschaft " (ib. 1881)
* "Der Abend zu Hause " (Breslau, 1881)
* "Ein Schatten aus Vergangenen Tagen " (Stuttgart, 1882)
* "Ein Kind des Meeres " (Dresden, 1882)
* "Der Fahrende Geselle " (Leipzig, 1884)
* "Vor dem Attentat " (Dresden, 1884)
* "Natur und Geist im Verhältnis zu den Kulturepochen " (Teschen, 1884)
* "Die Schöne Wienerin " (Jena, 1886)
* "Das Leben Kein Traum " (Breslau, 1887)
* "Auf dem Einsamen Schlosse " (1887)
* "Die Muse des Glücks und Moderne Einsamkeit " (Dresden, 1893)
* "Der Grundlose Optimismus " (Vienna, 1894)Bibliography
*
Bornmüller , "Schriftsteller-Lexikon "
* "Allg. Zeit. des Jud. Aug. ", 1891; Dec. 12, 1902
* "Oesterreichische Wochenschrift ", Dec. 12, 1902
* "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon "
*JewishEncyclopedia
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=49&letter=L Link to Jewish Encyclopedia]
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