About Alois Jeitteles
Lived 1794 – 1858 (aged 63). Alois Jeitteles was an Austrian journalist, translator, composer, poet, physician writer and physician.
Alois Isidor Jeitteles (20 June 1794 – 16 April 1858) was an Austrian medical doctor, journalist and writer, best known for Ludwig van Beethoven's setting of his poem sequence, An die ferne Geliebte.
Life Jeitteles was born in Brünn (now Brno), to a Jewish family with a medical and rabbinic tradition. He studied philosophy in Prague and Brünn and medicine in Vienna.
From 1848 to his death he edited the newspaper the "Brünner Zeitung".
His daughter was the suffragette :de:Ottilie Bondy (1832–1921). He also had two sons, Richard and Robert.
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Who was Alois Jeitteles?
Austrian physician and writer
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Alois Jeitteles was born on 20 June 1794 in Brno, Prague.
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Alois Jeitteles died on 16 April 1858 in Brno.
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Alois Jeitteles was a journalist, translator, composer, poet, physician writer and physician.
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Alois Jeitteles was Austrian.
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