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Meyer, Edvard
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Danish journalist and author; born Aug. 6, 1813, in Copenhagen; died there Aug. 4, 1880. He was the son of very poor parents and received little or no education during his boyhood, which he spent in a Jewish charitable institution. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a wood-turner in Kjöge, and spent several years at this trade. In 1837 he established a weekly journal, the "Kallundborg Ugeblad," which in 1839 was incorporated with another paper. In 1841 Meyer returned to Copenhagen, where he started a humorous weekly, "Friskytten," and later a sensational daily, "Flyveposten," which latter for some years yielded him an annual income of nearly 50,000 Danish crowns. After many vicissitudes Meyer ended his days as he had begun them—in a Jewish charitable institution.
Of his many writings may be mentioned: "Poetisk Nysepulver" (Copenhagen, 1826); "Conversation" (ib. 1839), four pamphlets; "Danske Folkesange" (ib. 1839), Danish popular melodies; "Digte og Eventyr" (ib. 1842), poems and fairy-tales.
- C. F. Bricka, Dansk Biografisk Lexicon;
- Erslew's Forfatter-Lexicon.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Meyer, Edvard'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/meyer-edvard.html. 1901.
