Creator Bio
Ludwig A. Frankl
1810–1894
Born in Chrast, Bohemia, Ludwig August Frankl was educated in Prague and Vienna; he studied medicine in Italy. He became a poet, editor of the Sonntagsblätter, secretary of the Vienna Jewish community, and founder of the Laemel School in Jerusalem and the Vienna Jewish Institute for the Blind. Frankl was a political liberal who supported the 1848 revolution through his journal and his verse. He used his position in Vienna’s literary elite to encourage new writers and was ennobled as Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart in recognition of his philanthropic activities. His is one of the earliest Prague golem tales.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Ancestral Tales and Legends
Under the roof of the oldest synagogue in Prague (the Altneuschul), because of the belief that misfortune would meet the workers, there is preserved, in its primeval form and color, a piece of trunk…