Jakob Julius David

Jakob Julius David (6 February 1859 - 20 November 1906) was an Austrian novelist and journalist.

Jakob Julius David was born the son of a wealthy German-Jewish farmer in Moravia. The family soon moved to Fulnek, where the father died. David attended high schools in Kremsier and Opava. Here he fell ill in 1873 severely from typhus, which he was severely limited in his vision. In addition, he has since been hard of hearing. Nevertheless, he began in 1877 in Vienna with a degree in Germanic and history and took an active interest in student life in the capital.

Since he was denied due to his disability, the teaching profession, he worked as a tutor and then as a journalist. Jakob Julius David worked as an editor and journalist, including for theViennese fashion,thetime, theMondayRevue,the Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung, theNeue Wiener Journaland the Wiener Zeitung. He was also a freelance writer.

In 1889 he obtained his Promotion to the doctor of philosophy. He moved from Judaism to Catholicism, but had no great significance because it was still in close contact with Jewish personalities and wrote for Jewish publications, such as theAustrian weekly, philo-Semitic articles. 1891 David married Julie Ostruska, the marriage produced a daughter. In 1899 he made an extended trip to Italy. Jakob Julius David joined the Masonic Lodgefuturefor the magazinecirclehe wrote reviews. In 1905 he was diagnosed with bronchial cancer and died in 1906 at the age of 47 years in Vienna and is on the Vienna's Central Cemetery (group 0, row 1, number 52) buried in a memorial grave.

His literary output includes poems, films, tales and drama, where his best and most lasting work is undoubtedly the stories. In his early work reflects the influence of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer s. Many of his novels and short stories deal with his Moravian home or are in the middle-class located milieu of Vienna. Stylistically, Jakob Julius David is judged very differently, and his works are part of the naturalism associated with it, on the other hand, regarded as the representative of literary decadence. Others assign it to the Austrian realism. Although the author is one part of the lesser known writers in Austria, but his stories were issued in the last 20 years, again and again.

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