The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Karpeles, Gustav
KARPELES', kăr'pĕ-lĕs, Gustav, Austrian
critic and historian: b. Eiwanowitz, Moravia,
1848; d. 1909. On the completion of his studies
at Breslau he became a journalist there; but
ambition took him to Berlin in 1877. There he
gradually attained the reputation of being one
of the soundest critics in Germany and an
authority on Heine and his literary work.
Among his published works are his ‘Autobiography’
of Heine collected from his letters and

works (1888); ‘Ludwig Börne’; ‘Nikolaus
Lenau’; ‘Friedrich Spielhagen’ (1889); ‘Goethe
in Polen’ (1889); ‘Graf Moltke als Redner’
(1890); ‘Die Frauen in der Jüdischen Litteratur’;
‘Geschichte der Jüdischen Litteratur’;
‘Allgemeine Geschichte der Litteratur’ (1891);
‘Jewish Literature’ (1895); ‘A Sketch of Jewish
History’ (1897). Karpeles was of a Jewish
family, hence his interest in Jewish history.