Background
Jakob Julius David was born the son of a wealthy German-Jewish farmer in Moravia.
Jakob Julius David was born the son of a wealthy German-Jewish farmer in Moravia.
David attended high schools in Kremsier and Opava.
The family soon moved to Fulnek, where the father died. 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.
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 son Many of his novels and short stories deal with his Moravian home or are in the middle-class located milieu of Vienna.
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.
The law courts. Dresden 1890 Theborn again.
Narratives. Dresden and Leipzig 1891 Problems. Narratives. Dresden and Leipzig 1892 Early appearance. from the output of the Great War.
Leipzig 1896 Four stories.
Leipzig and Berlin 1897 Troika. Narratives. Leipzig and Berlin 1901 TheHannah. Tales from Moravia. Berlin and Leipzig, 1904 Hallucinations. in New German Observations XVII 1906 Miracle saint.
Narratives.
Vienna 1906 Hagar"s son, acting, Vienna 1891 Arainy day. Drama, Leipzig 1896 Inclination, acting, Leipzig 1898 FaithfulEckardt. Drama, Leipzig 1902, Jena 1906.