Salomon Hermann Mosenthal

Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (14 January 1821 in Kassel – 17 February 1877 in Vienna) was a writer, dramatist, and poet of German-Jewish descent who spent much of his life in Austria.

Mosenthal attended the gymnasium in Kassel and the polytechnic school in Karlsruhe.

In 1846 his dramatized folk-story Der Hollander Michel was produced as in 1847 was succeeded his three-act drama Die Sklavin.

He also wrote a novel, Jephtha's Tochter, which was included in the Neuer Deutscher Novellenschatz, No.

A collected edition of his writings, for the arrangement of which he had left instructions, was published in six volumes in Stuttgart in 1878; with a portrait.