Saul Ascher


Saul Ascher was a German writer, translator and bookseller.

Life

Saul Ascher, was the first child of Deiche Aaron, and bank broker Anschel Jaffe.
Little is known about Ascher's training. In 1785, he attended high school in Landsberg an der Warthe. Saul married Rachel Spanier on 6 June 1789 in Hanover. Spanier was the daughter of Nathan Spanier, the head of the Ravensberg Jewish community. On 6 October 1795, his only child, a daughter named Wilhelmine, was born. On 6 April 1810, Ascher was arrested in Berlin, and was released on April 25 due to political pressure. On 6 October, he was awarded a doctoral degree in absentia from the University of Halle. In 1812, the year his father died, Ascher received the letter of citizenship. Ascher stepped forward in 1816 in the Jewish reform-oriented Gesellschaft der Freunde. At the book burning at the Wartburg festival on 18 October 1817, Ascher's writing "Die Germanomanie" was also burned. In October 1822, Saul Ascher fell ill, and on December 8, 1822, he died of "exhaustion."

Activity

Ascher met Heinrich Zschokke in 1789. He also became friends with Solomon Maimon, Johann Friedrich Cotta and Marx's teacher Eduard Gans. Throughout his life, Ascher was rejected as a Jew, theorist and writer. Leopold Zunz remarked in 1818, Ascher was an "enemy of all fanaticism, against the Deutschtümler, his moral character was not appreciated".
Saul Ascher was a prolific writer. His work can be divided into three different areas: author, translator, editor/publisher.
Early on, Ascher worked as a publisher. His editorial work, as well as his authored works, bared various pseudonyms.
Ascher was a member and correspondent for various magazines, including the Berlin Monatsschrift, Berlin Archive of Time and Taste, Eunomia, Literary Newspaper Hall, Morning Paper for the Educated Classes of Cotta, Miscellany for New World Client by Zschokke, Journal de l'Empire.
Ascher founded and distributed at least two magazines himself. In 1810, a politically difficult year for Ascher, he founded the "World and Spirit", which was published until 1811 in six issues.

Teaching

In his first publication, "Bemerkungen über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden", Ascher noted:
Unlike other Jewish writers, Ascher was against Jews being forced to military service as this would only involve Jews of limited means, and not the upper classes. In 1799, his ideas on natural history of the political revolutions were banned.

Legacy

Historically effect emancipation is Ascher behind other contemporary representatives of the fallen significantly. In his "Harz Journey", says Heinrich Heine of him. Ironically, he describes Ascher as "reason doctor" and leaves him after his death as a ghost appear, with the help of the teachings of Kant's "witching hour" the non-existence of ghosts seeking to prove-in. At the same time, Heine points out, however, Ascher have influenced him in his development. The literature professor Reinhold Steig deals in his book, "Heinrich von Kleist's Berliner struggles" one-sided and distorted with Ascher and his disputes with Kleist.
Walter grave was the first in 1977, basing on a dissertation by Fritz Pinkuss of 1928, representing an in-depth essay by Ascher. Even Peter Hacks has 1989 and 1990 in two papers, the title "Ascher against Jahn" were grouped under the order political classification and appraisal Asher tried one. An important role as a counter-figure to Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim played Ascher in the context of recent research on the relationship between romance and anti-Semitism.
In his two-part essay, "The Falcon" has André Thielelast in his collection "A world in ruins," reprinted, preliminary work for a comprehensive biography Ascher presented the well as a bibliography of the primary title, compared to previously known to titles 50% is more extensive.
In 2010, two new editions of works by Saul Ascher announced a one-volume selection from the work in the Böhlau Verlag, Bonn, and the first volume of a comprehensive edition of works published by André Thiele, Mainz.

Works

Translations
Published post-mortem