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Erich von Mendelssohn
d. 1913
A gifted poet, writer, and translator from the Mendelssohn family, he published with striking intensity before dying at just 25. His life was brief, but his work still carries the feeling of an early talent cut short.
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Phantasten: Roman
by Erich von Mendelssohn
About the author
Born in Dorpat in 1887, he was a German-language writer, poet, and translator from the distinguished Mendelssohn family of Jever. He belonged to a literary and scholarly world, and his writing appeared while he was still very young.
His career was short: he died in Helsingør in 1913, only 25 years old. Even so, he is remembered as part of the wider German-Jewish cultural tradition, and his name continues to appear in literary and biographical reference works.
Because his life ended so early, the surviving record is relatively compact, but that also gives his work a particular poignancy. He remains an intriguing figure for readers interested in promising early-20th-century writers whose voices were only beginning to develop.