| LC control no. | n 85298158 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hoddis, Jakob van, 1887-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Davidsohn, Hans, 1887-1942 Van Hoddis, Jakob, 1887-1942 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Birth date | 1887-05-16 |
| Death date | 1942-05? |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Sobibór (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets |
| Found in | Hornbogen, Helmut. Jakob van Hoddis, 1986: title page (Jakob van Hoddis) page 43, etc. (changed his name at the end of 1909 from Hans Davidsohn to Jakob van Hoddis; born May 16, 1887; died April 30, 1942 [see note below]) German Wikipedia, viewed October 31, 2019 (Jakob van Hoddis, German Expressionist poet; birth name: Hans Davidsohn; born May 16, 1887, in Berlin; died 1942 in Sobibór in the Generalgouvernement of Poland; he is best known for his poem Weltende (published 1911); he was considered Jewish under the Nazi laws on race; as a Jew and as a sufferer from mental illness, he was subject to persecution by the Nazis; in 1933, he was institutionalized to a home for the mentally ill in Koblenz; on April 30, 1942, he was deported from Koblenz to Poland and most likely died in the extermination camp of Sobibór in May or June of 1942) |
| Associated language | ger |
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