Siegfried Kapper
Illustration — Siegfried Kapper (1870), by Friedrich Kriehuber Siegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper (21 March 1821, Smíchov7 June 1879, Prague), a Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin. Kapper wrote excellent fairy tales and poems, and was one of the leading figures of Czech-Jewish assimilation. Kapper wrote in both German and Czech.
Also recorded as Isaac Salomon Kapper
Siegfried Kapper
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- Born
- 1821 · Prague.
- Died
- 1879 · Pisa.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire · Austria–Hungary
- Occupation
- poet · translator · writer · physician
- Education
- University of Vienna
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Siegfried Kapper (1870), by Friedrich Kriehuber Siegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper (21 March 1821, Smíchov7 June 1879, Prague), a Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin. Kapper wrote excellent fairy tales and poems, and was one of the leading figures of Czech-Jewish assimilation. Kapper wrote in both German and Czech.
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He translated Mácha's Máj into German for the first time (1844). Austrian composer Nina Stollewerk used Kapper's text for her composition "Zwei Gedichte," opus 5. After his death, the Kapper-Society was founded; its aim was Czech-Jewish assimilation and opposition to Zionism and German-Jewish assimilation.
• "Das Böhmerland" (1865) • "Die Handschriften Altböhmischer Poesien" (1859) • "Die Böhmischen Bäder" (1857) • "Fürst Lazar" (1853) • "Falk" (1853) • "Südslavische Wanderungen" (1853) • "Die Gesänge der Serben" (1852in two parts) • "Lazar der Serbenzar" (1851). Kapper had a Serbian predecessor in the person of Joksim Nović-Otočanin who published his book on the same theme at Novi Sad (Neusatz) in 1847. • "Befreite Lieder dem Jungen Oesterreich" (1848) • "České Listy" (1846) • "Slavische Melodien" (1844)
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• Tales of the Prague Ghetto. Prague: Karolinum Press (2022).. The stories Kapper wrote about the Jews of Prague (collected posthumously as Prager Ghettosagen, 1896).
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1821
Siegfried Kapper born at Prague.
1879
Siegfried Kapper died at Pisa.
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Siegfried Kapper is recorded as poet, translator, writer and physician.
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