Clara Steinitz

Clara Steinitz (née Klausner; 16 April 1852 – 1931) was a German novelist, feuilletonist, and translator from English, French, Italian, and Norwegian.[2]

Clara Steinitz
BornClara Klausner
(1852-04-16)16 April 1852
Kobylin, Prussia, German Confederation
Died1931 (aged 78–79)
Pen nameHans Burdach[1]
LanguageGerman
Spouse
Heinrich Steinitz
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(m. 1873; died 1904)​

She was born to Jewish parents Bernhard and Pauline Klausner in Kobylin, Prussia, and was educated at Halle-on-the-Saale. In 1873 she married Siegfried Heinrich Steinitz, editor of Die Deutsche Presse,[3] with whom she moved to Berlin.[4]

Among Steinitz's novels were Des Volkes Tochter (1878), Die Hässliche (1884), Ihr Beruf (1886), Im Priesterhause (1890), Ring der Nibelungen (1893), and Irrlicht (1895). She also translated several novels from foreign languages, including Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, Octave Feuillet's Les amours de Philippe, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen's Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life and Under the Glacier, and Edward Bellamy's Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality.[5]

Publications
  • Taylor, Bayard (1877). Joseph und Sein Freund [Joseph and His Friend]. Translated by Steinitz, Clara. Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Steinitz, Clara (1878). Des Volkes Tochter. Erzählung. Leipzig.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Feuillet, Octave (1878). Die Liebschaften Philipps von Boisvilliers [Les amours de Philippe]. Leipzig: Ernst Julius Günther.
  • Steinitz, Clara (1884). Die Häßliche Roman. Berlin: Freund & Keckel.
  • Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1885). Gunnar; Unter dem Gletscher. Zwei norwegische Erzählungen [Gunnar / Under the Glacier]. Leipzig: Reclam. hdl:2027/nnc1.1002138514.
  • Steinitz, Clara (1886). Ihr Beruf. Erzählung. Berlin: Freund & Keckel.
  • Döpler, Carl E.; Steinitz, Clara (1889). Der Ring des Nibelungen. Berlin: Berliner Kunstdruck- und Verlags-Anstalt.
  • Steinitz, Clara (1890). Im Priesterhause. Original-Erzählung. Berlin: S. Gerstmann's Verlag.
    • Translated into English as Under the Rabbi's Roof. Cincinnati: Leo Wise & Co.
  • Bellamy, Edward (1890). Fräulein Ludingtons Schwester. Ein Roman über die Unsterblichheit [Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality]. Berlin: Verlag von S. Fischer.
  • Gissing, George (1892). Demos. Translated by Steinitz, Clara. Leipzig: Victor Ottmann.
  • Steinitz, Clara (1895). Irrlicht. Roman. Berlin: Freund & Keckel.
  • Morris, William (1900). Kunde von Nirgendwo: Ein Utopischer Roman [News from Nowhere]. Translated by Liebknecht, Natalie; Steinitz, Clara. Stuttgart: Dietz.
  • Steinitz, Clara (1906). Thamar. Trauerspiel in vier Akten. Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Steinitz, Clara (1909). Der Allerletzte. Dramatische Humoreske. Leipzig.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Steinitz, Clara (1922). Uriel. Dramatisches Gedicht in vier Akten. Rendsburg & Leipzig: Euterpia-Verlag.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore (1905). "Steinitz, Clara (née Klausner; pseudonym, Hans Burdach)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 544.

  1. Holzmann, Michael; Bohatta, Hanns (1906). Deutsche Pseudonymen-Lexikon. Vienna & Leipzig: Akademischer Verlag. p. 42. ISBN 978-5-87637-887-3.
  2. Pataky, Sophie (1898). "Steinitz, Frau Clara". Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin. pp. 327–328.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Friedrichs, Elisabeth (1981). Die deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Ein Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. p. 298. ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7.
  4. Balde, Joachim Heinrich (2003). Beiträge zu einem biographischen Lexikon der Deutschen aus dem Raum der Provinz Posen (in German). Herne: Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek. ISBN 978-3-923371-26-6.
  5. Katznelson, J. L., ed. (1913). "Штейниц, Клара"  [Steinitz, Clara]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 16. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 100.
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