Jakob van Hoddis

(1887-1942)

German poet

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Jakob van Hoddis (16 May 1887 – May/June 1942) was the pen name of the German-Jewish expressionist poet Hans Davidsohn, of which name "Van Hoddis" is an anagram. His most famous poem Weltende (End of the world) published on 11 January 1911 in the Der Demokrat magazine, is generally regarded as the preliminary Expressionist poem which inspired many other poets to write in a similarly grotesque style; he is also seen as perhaps the only German predecessor of surrealism (which did not exist as a movement in Germany).

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Born	Hans Davidsohn 16 May 1887 Berlin, Germany
Died	1942 (aged 54) Sobibor, Poland (Nazi German extermination camp)
Zodiac	Taurus
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