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FRANZOS, KARL EMIL (1848–1904)

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FRANZOS, KARL EMIL (1848–1904) , See also:German novelist, was See also:born of Jewish parentage on the 25th of See also:October 1848 in See also:Russian See also:Podolia, and spent his See also:early years at Czortkbw in See also:Galicia. His See also:father, a See also:district physician, died early, and the boy, after attending the gymnasium of See also:Czernowitz, was obliged to See also:teach in See also:order to support himself and prepare for See also:academic study. He studied See also:law at the See also:universities of See also:Vienna and See also:Graz, but after passing the examination for employment in the See also:state judicial service abandoned, this career and, becoming a journalist, travelled extensively in See also:south-See also:east See also:Europe, and visited See also:Asia See also:Minor and See also:Egypt. In 1877 he returned to Vienna, where from 1884 to 1886 he edited the Neue illustrierte Zeitung. In 1887 he removed to See also:Berlin and founded the fortnightly See also:review Deutsche Dichtung. Franzos died on the 28th of See also:January 1904. His earliest collections of stories and sketches, Aus Halb-Asien, See also:Land and Leute See also:des ostlichen Europas (1876) and See also:Die Juden von Barnow (1877) depict graphically the See also:life and See also:manners of the races of south-eastern Europe. Among other of his See also:works may be mentioned the See also:short stories, Junge Liebe (1878), Stille Geschichten (188o), and the novels Moschko von See also:Parma (188o), Ein Kampf urns Recht (1882), Der Prdsident (1884), See also:Judith Trachtenberg (1890), Der Wahrheitsucher (1804).

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