Paul Acker
Paul-Théodore Acker (14 September 1874 – 27 June 1915), was an Alsatian writer of French language, author of popular novels.
Biography
Paul Acker was born in Saverne. As a journalist, he collaborated with the Gaulois, L'Echo de Paris and the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Illustration, the Revue de Paris and the La Revue critique des idées et des livres.
On June 27, 1915 he was killed in a car accident while on duty near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on August 11, 1922. In Goldbach (Haut-Rhin), a stele has been erected in his memory by the Souvenir français.[1]
Honors
The first Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française was awarded to Paul Acker for the whole of his work in 1915
Paul Acker is on the list of writers killed in action at the Pantheon in Paris.
Works
- Dispensé de l'Article 23 (1898; preface by Willy, cover art by Charles Léandre)
- Un mari sans femme (1902)
- Petites confessions. Visites et portraits (1905)
- La Petite Madame de Thianges (1906)
- Le Désir de vivre (1907)
- Œuvres sociales des femmes (1908)
- Le Soldat Bernard (1909)
- Les Exilés (1911; 2016)
- Le Beau Jardin (1910)
- Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse (1912)
- Les deux cahiers (1912)
- Les deux amours (1914)
- Les Demoiselles Bertram (1914)
- Trois tombes (1916)
- L'Oiseau vainqueur (1916)
- Entre deux rives (1917)
- Colmar: une ville alsacienne (1919)
Notes
- ↑ Schroda, Julia (2017). "Acker, Paul." In: Roland Recht & Jean-Claude Richez, eds., Dictionnaire Culturel de Strasbourg: 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, p. 23.
References
- Bordeaux, Henry (1916). Trois Tombes. (La Prière pour les Absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux Morts.) Paris: Plon-Nourrit.
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