Heinrich Eduard Jacob
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Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author. Born to a
Early life
Jacob, originally named Henry Edward Jacob, was born in Friedrichstadt, a district of Berlin, the son of bank director and newspaper publisher Richard Jacob (1847–1899) and his wife Martha (née Behrendt), the daughter of a landed family. The couple divorced in 1895 and Martha was remarried, to the Viennese banker Edmund Lampl, in the same year.
Career
Youth, education, and first job
Jacob was raised alongside his older brother Robert (1883–1924) and younger half-sister Alice Lampl (1898 - 1938) in an intellectual German-Jewish household. Jacob attended
Weimar Republic
For twenty years Jacob worked as a journalist and feature writer, also publishing a number of novels, short story collections, and plays. In September and October 1926 he served as a delegate to the
Third Reich, concentration camps, and emigration
Following the
in vocal opposition to Nazism, and contributed to the fracturing of the Austrian chapter of P.E.N. His books were banned under the Nazi regime, but remained in print via Swiss and Dutch exile publishers.Following the
Jacob's future wife, Dora Angel-Soyka, succeeded through the exercise of extraordinary effort in having Jacob released from Buchenwald. The sister of the Austrian poet Ernest Angel, and former wife of the writer Otto Soyka, she enlisted the help of Jacob's American uncle Michael J. Barnes in securing his release on 10 January 1939. Jacob and Angel-Soyka were married on 18 February 1939 and immediately left Germany, via the United Kingdom, for New York.
US, return to Germany, and death
In the United States Jacob resumed his writing career, contributing both to German-language periodicals including the Jewish weekly
Jacob died in 1967 and is buried, with his wife, in a Jewish cemetery in Berlin.
Critical reception
Jacob's work is the subject of analyses and criticism by a number of scholars of literary history. Writing in 2005, Isolde Mozer identified a mystical thread in his work despite its modernity. She characterized Jacob's thematic use of
Jens-Erik Hohmann argued in a 2006 monograph on Jacob that the author's career represents a component of the history of Germany as a whole - as an account of a human and an artist attempting both to survive and remain part of the thread of history in a turbulent time.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Werner, Alfred (24 July 1949). "A Poet of Exiles". New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ISBN 1-85109-628-0.
- ISBN 978-3-8260-3831-0.
External links
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob.de (in German)