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Ignaz Ježower

1878 – 1942

German author and translator

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Lived 1878 – 1942 (aged 63). Ignaz Ježower was a translator, writer, literary historian and historian.

Ignaz Sebastian Jeżower (17 June 1878 in Rzeszów, Poland – 13 January 1942 in Riga) was a Polish-German cultural historian, writer and translator in Berlin.

Personal life His early studies were in Vienna in literature and cultural history. His wife Erna Jeżower, nee Münchenberg, was born on the 20th August 1888 in Berlin.

Career Ignaz Jeżower was a cultural historian and scientist, writer and translator in Berlin.

From 1921 he was the literary director of the Verlages Bong publishing house, for a long time also a lecturer for the Rowohlt-Verlage publishing house. He published several important books and wrote essays, book reviews and theater reviews for various newspapers and magazines, for example the Neuen Merkur (New Mercury). Alfred Döblin, Kurt Schwitters and other artists. Together with Franz Hessel he translated and edited the memoirs "Histoire de ma vie" by Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798).

His most important work is a comprehensive dream anthology, published in 1928, Das Buch der Träume (The Book of Dreams). This monumental work of over 700 pages is a comprehensive dream anthology with interpretations in two parts: first the dreams themselves, then "statements about the dreams", biographies and interpretations. This book helped popularize the modern interpretation of dreams . The Book of Dreams also made an important contribution to cultural history by also presenting the dream as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. It also contains a detailed review of dream literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Sigmund Freud's work.

Works (Hrsg.): Venezianische Nächte und Träume. Dichtungen von Byron/Dehmel/Geibel/Goethe/Greif/Hesse/Heyse/Hofmannsthal/C.F. Meyer/Nietzsche/Platen/Salus/Schack/Schaukal/Schönaich-Carolath/Strachwitz u. a. Berlin/Leipzig (B. Behrs Verlag) o. J. (um 1910). 2. Aufl. 183 S. marmorierter Pbd. Die 1. Aufl. erschien unter dem Titel 'Der poetische Cicerone 1' (Enthält ferner Dichtungen von Friedrich Adler, Andre Chenier, Felix Dahn, Benno Geiger, Robert Hamerling, Hermann Lingg, Alfred Meissner, Richard Monckton Milnes, Thomas Moore, Alfred Musset, Anton Renk, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lorenzo Stecchetti, Heinrich Stieglitz, Theodor Suse, Jaroslav Vrchlicky sowie venezianische Volkslieder. Mit einer Einführung des Hrsg.) Die Befreiung der Menschheit: Freiheitsideen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Unter Mitwirkung von Paul Adler, Adolf Behne, Eduard Bernstein, Leo Bloch, A. Conrady, Paul Darmstädter, Alfred Döblin, Max Hochdorf, Paul Kampffmeyer, E. Lederer, Friedrich Muckle, Rich. Müller, Paul Olberg, Albert Pohlmeyer, A. E. Rutra, Alexander Stein, Heinrich Ströbel, Veit Valentin herausgegeben von Ignaz Jeżower. Mit zahlreichen ganzseitigen Abbildungen, im Text und auf Tafeln, u. a. v.: F. Hodler; Walter Crane; A. Rethel; Daumier; E. Barlach; Munch; H. Thoma; Th. Th. Heine; K. Kollwitz. Berlin [u. a.]: Bong, 1921 Jeżower, Ignaz: Die Rutschbahn. Das Buch vom Abenteurer. Mit einigen Tafeln. Ausstattung von George Grosz. Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Bong (1922) Giacomo Casanova: Erinnerungen, übersetzt und herausgegeben von Franz Hessel u. Ignaz Jeżower. 10 Bände. Berlin, E. Rowohlt, o. J. (1924–1925). (Erste Ausgabe der Memoiren Casanovas). Das Buch der Träume. Berlin: Rowohlt, 1928 (Die Träume der Erzväter, der Menschen des Altertums, der Chinesen, des Menschen des Mittelalters, der Reformationszeit, der Romantik, des Weltkriegs, intellektuelle Leistungen im Traum, experimentell erregte Traumbilder, Tr. der Blinden, der Primitiven, der Kinder, Tr. der Tiere. Register der träumenden Personen und der im Tr. erschienenen Personen, Quellenverzeichnis. – Mit Berichten (teils Erstdrucke) der Träume von Alexander dem Großen, Oskar Baum, W. Benjamin, S. Freud, Fr. Hebbel, Jean Paul, A. Strindberg u. v. a. – Eine „Traumanthologie“ beginnend im griechisch-römischen Umkreis, über Mohammedaner, Goethe und sein Umkreis, Hebbel, Heine, Andersen, Strindberg, Richard Dehmel, Franziska zu Reventlow, Wieland Herzfelde, Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud etc., daneben finden sich Themenkapitel wie Die intellektuellen Leistungen im Traume, Die okkulten Fähigkeiten im Traume u. a. Durch ein Personen- und Sachregister erschlossen.) Jeżower, Ignaz (Hrsg.): Briefe an die Jugend aus vier Jahrhunderten. Auswahl und kulturhistorische Einleitungen von Ignaz Jeżower. Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1932

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Who was Ignaz Ježower?

German author and translator

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Ignaz Ježower was born on 17 June 1878 in Rzeszów.

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Ignaz Ježower died on 13 January 1942 in Riga.

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Ignaz Ježower was a translator, writer, literary historian and historian.

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Ignaz Ježower's recorded nationality: German Reich.

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