Peter Altenberg was born Richard Engländer in Vienna 1859 as son of Jewish middle-class parents, but later he converted to Christianity. He never managed to finish university even though he began studies of law, then medicine, then a training as bookseller and then again law studies. He also never held a permanent job and was finally diagnosed as unfit for a regular job because of an overly sensitive nervous system. In the 1880s he moved out of his family home and began leading a bohemian life, spending the day in coffee houses, borrowing money and sleeping in various places. He did most of his writing in coffee houses, in an impressionist style. In 1896, Altenberg published his first book which was comprised of short pieces about the everyday life of people from various social classes. His book was favorably received and helped him establish a reputation as a significant author. Ten more books followed throughout his life. He died at the age of 59 in Vienna in 1919.
Peter Altenberg Collection
لتكبير النص لتصغير النصالعنوان |
Peter Altenberg Collection. |
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عنوان بديل |
כותרת בעברית: אוסף פטר אלטנברג. |
ملاحظة اقتباس |
ARC. Ms. Var. 304, Peter Altenberg Collection, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem |
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Peter Altenberg Collection |
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Ms. Var. 304Ms. Var. 366 |
مستوى التوصيف |
Fonds Record |
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Peter Altenberg was born on March 9, 1859 in Vienna as Richard Engländer, the son of a Jewish merchant. He chose his pseudnym Peter Altenberg from a meeting with a 13 year old girl in Altenberg on the Danube, whose nickname by her brothers had been "Peter". He began studying law at the university of Vienna, then switched to medicine, then abandonded the idea and moved to Stuttgart to begin training as a book dealer. This he abandoned again, and returned to Vienna to continue with law studies and to abandon those as well. In 1895 he published his first literary work with the help of Karl Kraus. In 1900 he officially left the Jewish community, became unaffiliated with any religion, and finally, after 10 years, was baptised as Catholic with Adolf Loos as his godfather. He left his family home and led a Bohemian life writing in coffeeshops and sleeping in various places. He became a well know figure in Vienna and was the center of many (urban) legends. He never held a permanent job, and was diagnosed as having an overly sensitive nervous system that prevented him from holding a regular job. Despite his literary success he was dependent on donations arranged by his friends, among them Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos. He was an extravagant unconventional dresser, wearing sandals on bare feet. He had a large collection of postcards and developed his own health theories. He spent his last six years of life living in a hotel room, interspersed with time in instutions to treat alcoholism and depressions. He died in on January 8, 1919 in Vienna. His work mainly consists of short prose that can be considered prose poetry, sketching short glimpses of daily life, encounters and overheard conversations, as he saw them in the coffeehouse scene. |
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The materials were permanently deposited in the National Library in 1957. |
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The materials are in German. |
الإعتمادات |
Peter Altenberg Collection, The National Library Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg. |
رقم النظام |
990026261320205171 |
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Peter Altenberg Collection, The National Library Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
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