Siegfried Kapper
Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin · Writers · Lived 1821 to 1879 · aged 58
Siegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper, 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.
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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). Austrian composer Nina Stollewerk used Kapper's text for her composition "Zwei Gedichte," opus 5.