Ludwig Kalisch (7 September 1814 in
Lissa – 3 March 1882 in
Paris
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) was a
German-Jewish
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novelist.
When only twelve years of age he left his home and became successively pedler, merchant, and teacher. He saved enough money to carry him through matriculation and the study of medicine and, later, languages and literature in
Heidelberg
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and
Munich
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. Settling in
Mainz
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in 1843, he became editor of the ''
Narrhalla'' (1843–46). A participant in the
revolution of 1848-49, he was forced to leave Germany. He went to Paris, in 1850 to London, and from 1851 onward lived in Paris.
Literary works
Kalisch's forte was the humorous
ballad
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. Many of his writings appeared in the ''
feuilleton
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s'' of the newspapers and in magazines.
Of those published separately may be mentioned:
* "Das Buch der Narrheit," Mainz, 1845;
* "Schlagschatten," ib. 1845;
* "Poetische Erzählungen," ib. 1845;
* "Shrapnels," Frankfurt am Main, 1849;
* "Paris und London," ib. 1851;
* "Heitere Stunden," Berlin, 1872;
* "Bilder aus Meiner Knabenzeit," Leipzig, 1872;
* "Gebunden und Ungebunden," Munich, 1876;
* "Pariser Leben," Mainz, 1881, 2d ed. 1882.
Bibliography of Jewish Encyclopedia
* ''
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
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Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house in 1826, intended t ...
''
*:
::By :
Isidore Singer
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Biography
Singer was born in 1859 in Weisskirchen, M ...
&
Frederick T. Haneman
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Haneman lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York. While writing articles for the ''Jewish Encyclo ...
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1814 births
1882 deaths
People from Leszno
People from the Province of Posen
19th-century German Jews