Gustav Karpeles

Gustav Karpeles (11 November 1848 in Ivanovice na Hané, Margraviate of Moravia[1] – 21 July 1909 in Nauheim) was a German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah Karpeles.

He embraced journalism, and was successively attached to the editorial staffs of Auf der Höhe, the Breslauer Nachrichten, the Breslauer Zeitung, the Deutsche Union, and Westermann's Deutsche Monatshefte.

In 1883 Karpeles settled in Berlin, where in 1890 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums.

Karpeles stimulated into active life the Jewish literary societies in Germany, but made himself most widely known through his writings on Heinrich Heine.

His contributions to Jewish literature include: Karpeles also wrote drama:

Gustav Karpeles