Siegfried Kapper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Siegfried Kapper

Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1821

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1879

Profession: writer, poet, translator, physician writer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Siegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper (21 March 1821, Smíchov – 7 June 1879, Prague), a Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin.
Born in Smichow, Kapper studied medicine at Prague University, later completing a Ph.D.
at the University of Vienna.
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.
He translated Mácha's Máj into German for the first time (1844).After his death, the Kapper-Society was founded; its aim was Czech-Jewish assimilation and opposition to Zionism and German-Jewish assimilation.



Alternative names	e. kaiser; eduard kaiser
Description	Austrian painter and lithographer
Date of birth/death	22 February 1820	30 August 1895
Location of birth/death	Graz	Vienna
Authority control	: Q1288945 VIAF: 61812845 ISNI: 0000 0000 6658 5743 ULAN: 500086418 LCCN: n97861585 GND: 123634717 WorldCat