Vintage Letter of famous German Jewish Poet & Author Berthold Auerbach for Sale

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Vintage Letter of famous German Jewish Poet & Author Berthold Auerbach:
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Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February1882) was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German\"tendency novel\", in which fiction is used as a means of influencingpublic opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions. Biography Moses (Moyses) Baruch Auerbach wasborn in Nordstetten (now Horb am Neckar) in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Heattended Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium.He was intended for the ministry, but after studying philosophy at Tübingen, Munich and Heidelberg, and becomingestranged from Jewish orthodoxy bythe study of Spinoza, he devoted himself to literature.While a student in Heidelberg and under the pseudonym “Theobald Chauber,” heproduced a Biography of Frederick the Great (1834–36). Another early publication wasentitled Das Judentum und die neueste Litteratur (Judaism andRecent Literature; 1836), and was to be followed by a series of novels takenfrom Jewish history. Of this intended series he actually published, withconsiderable success, Spinoza (1837) and Dichter undKaufmann (\"Poet and Merchant\"; 1839), based on the lifeof Ephraim Kuh.) His romance on the life of Spinoza adheres soclosely to fact that it may be read with equal advantage as a novel or as abiography. In 1841, he created a translation of Spinoza\'s works. In 1842, hewrote Der gebildete Bürger (\"The Educated Citizen\"),an attempt to popularize philosophical subjects. But real fame and popularity came tohim after 1843, when he began to occupy himself with the life of the commonpeople which forms the subject of his best-known works. That year hepublished Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (\"Black ForestVillage Stories\"; 1843) which was his first great success, widelytranslated, and expressing with a sympathetic realism the memories and scenesof youth. In his later books, of which Auf der Höhe (On the Heights;[2] 1865) is perhaps the most characteristic, andcertainly the most famous, he revealed an unrivaled insight into the soul ofthe southern German country folk, and especially of the peasants of the Black Forest and the Bavarian Alps. His descriptions are remarkable for their freshrealism, graceful style and humour. In addition to these qualities, his lastbooks are marked by great subtlety of psychological analysis. Auf derHöhe was first published at Stuttgart in 1861, and has been translated into severallanguages. Auerbach died at Cannes shortly before his 70thbirthday.