Seligmann Heller (8 July 1831 – 8 January 1890) was an Austrian poet and journalist. Heller was born at Raudnitz,

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. After completing his course at the

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, where he studied philology and law, he engaged in business with his father. In 1866 he became teacher of German at a commercial school at

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, and was at the same time member of the editorial staff of "Bohemia." He taught also at the Talmud Torah at Prague. In 1873 he went to Vienna, where he became dramatic critic for the "Deutsche Zeitung," and, subsequently, teacher of the history of literature at the Handelsakademie. Heller published "Ahasverus," an epic poem on the

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, Leipzig, 1866 (2d ed., ib. 1868); "Die Letzten Hasmonäer," Prague, 1865; and "Gedichte," Vienna, 1872. He died in

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After Heller's death his translations of medieval Hebrew poems were edited by his friend

David Kaufmann David Kaufmann (7 June 1852 – 6 July 1899) (Hebrew: דוד קויפמן) was a Jewish-Austrian scholar born at Kojetín, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). From 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kroměříž, Moravia, where he studie ...

and published under the title "Die Echten Hebräischen Melodien," Treves, 1892 (2d ed., Breslau, 1903).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heller, Seligmann Poets from Austria-Hungary Heller Seligmann Heller Seligmann 1831 births 1890 deaths People from Roudnice nad Labem 19th-century Austrian male writers