Salomon Wininger

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Salomon Wininger (13 December 1877, Gura Humorului, Bukovina – December 1968, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Austrian-Jewish biographer.

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Otto Weininger austrian philosopher and writer

Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter, which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Parts of his work were adapted for use by the Nazi regime. Weininger was a large influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, August Strindberg, and relatively on James Joyce.

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Wininger is considered as one of the greatest Jewish biographers of all time.^[1]

Works

Große Jüdische National-Biographie ("Lexicon of Jewish National Biographies"). Chernivtsi 1925–1936.
Gura Humora: Geschichte einer Kleinstadt in der Südbukovina ("Gura Humora: History of a Small Town in South Bukovina").

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References

Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 16. Keter, Jerusalem 1971.
Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert. Vol. 3, S-Z. Ed.: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien. K. G. Saur, München 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8, p. 1483.

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↑ See, for instance: David Lazar, "Biografia shel – biograf" [=A Biography of – a Biographer], Maariv , 22 April 1960; Raphael Bashan, "Biografia atzuva shel gedol ha'biografim be'dorenu" [=A sad biography of the greatest biographer of our generation], Maariv, 5 October 1960.

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[1] See, for instance: David Lazar, "Biografia shel – biograf" [=A Biography of – a Biographer], Maariv , 22 April 1960; Raphael Bashan, "Biografia atzuva shel gedol ha'biografim be'dorenu" [=A sad biography of the greatest biographer of our generation], Maariv, 5 October 1960.