Fritz Mauthner

Fritz Mauthner was born on the 22^nd November 1849 in Horschitz, Bohemia; he died on the 29^th June 1923 in Meersburg, Germany. He was an Austro-Hungarian novelist, satirist, theatre critic and an exponent of philosophical skepticism taken from a critic of human knowledge.

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Fritz Mauthner was born into a Jewish family from Horschitz in Bohemia. His father is the owner of a small weaving factory in Horschitz. At the age of six, his family relocated to Prague to provide a quality education for the kids.

Fritz Mauthner was frustrated by his educational experiences and after he had been held back for the total of 3 years, he got his Matura at the age of 20 from the Kleinseiter-Gymnasium in the city of Prague.

Between the year 1869 and the year 1873, Fritz Mauthner studied law in accordance with the wish of the father at the University of Prague, the Karolinum.

Works

Philosophy

Ø  Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, three volumes, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1901–1902.

Ø  Aristoteles, 1904

Ø  Spinoza, 1906

Ø  Die Sprache, 1907

Ø  Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1910–11, 1923–24

Ø  Schopenhauer, 1911

Ø  Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha, 1913

Ø  Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande (4 books), 1920–23

Ø  Muttersprache und Vaterland, 1920

Fiction

Ø  Anna, 1874

Ø  Lyrik

Ø  Die große Revolution, 1872

Ø  Nach berühmten Mustern, satirical, 1878, 1889

Ø  Einsame Fahrten, 1879

Ø  Vom armen Franischko, story, 1879

Ø  Die Sonntage der Baronin, 1881

Ø  Der neue Ahasver, 1882

Ø  Dilettantenspiegel, satirical, 1883

Ø  Gräfin Salamanca, 1884

Ø  Xanthippe, 1884

Ø  Berlin W. (trilogy of novels): Quartett, 1886; Die Fanfare, 1888; Der Villenhof, 1890

Ø  Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna, novel, 1887

Ø  Der Pegasus, 1889

Ø  Zehn Geschichten, 1891

Ø  Glück im Spiel, 1891

Ø  Hypatia, 1892

Ø  Lügenohr, 1892 (under the title: Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit, 1899)

Ø  Kraft, novel 1894

Ø  Die Geisterseher, novel 1894

Ø  Die bunte Reihe, 1896

Ø  Der steinerne Riese, novella, 1896

Ø  Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897

Ø  Der wilde Jockey, 1897

Ø  Der letzte Tod des Gautamo Buddha, novel 1913

Ø  Der goldene Fiedelbogen, 1917

Essays and theoretical works

Ø  Kleiner Krieg, 1879

Ø  Credo, 1886

Ø  Tote Symbole, 1892

Ø  Zum Streit um die Bühne, 1893

Ø  Totengespräche, 1906

Ø  Gespräche im Himmel und andere Ketzereien, 1914

Translations

Ø  Henriette Marechal, by Edmond de Goncourt, 1895

Editorial

Ø  Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur, 1889-1890

Ø  Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes, 1991

Ø  Bibliothek der Philosophen, from 1911

Collected works

Ø  Ausgewählte Schriften, 6 books, 1919

Miscellaneous

Ø  Erinnerungen, autobiography 1918

Ø  Selbstbiographie 1922, in: Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. 3.