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Mar 21, 1821 Prague, Czech Republic Died on 07 Jun 1879 (aged 58)
Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin
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About Siegfried Kapper
- Siegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper (21 March 1821, Smíchov – 7 June 1879, Prague), 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.
- 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).After his death, the Kapper-Society was founded; its aim was Czech-Jewish assimilation and opposition to Zionism and German-Jewish assimilation.
