Karl Emil Franzos
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Karl Emil Franzos (October 25, 1848 - January 28, 1904) was a German novelist.
Franzos was born of Sephardic father and Odessan mother of Jewish parentage in Russian Podolia, and spent his early years in the shtetl of Czortków in Galicia.
His father, a district physician, died early, and the boy, after attending the gymnasium of Czernowitz, Bukovina, was obliged to teach in order to support himself and prepare for academic study. He studied law at the universities of Vienna and Graz, but after passing the examination for employment in the state judicial service abandoned, this career and, becoming a journalist, travelled extensively in south Europe, and visited Asia and Egypt. In 1877 he returned to Vienna, where from 1884 to 1886 he edited the Neue illustrierte Zeitung. In 1887 he removed to Berlin and founded the fortnightly review Deutsche Dichtung. Franzos died in 1904.
His earliest collections of stories and sketches, Aus Halb-Asien, Land and Leute des ostlichen Europas (1876) and Die Juden von Barnow (1877) depict graphically the life and manners of the races of south-eastern Europe.
His other works include:
- Junge Liebe (1878)
- Stille Geschichten (1880)
- Moschko von Parma (1880)
- Ein Kampf und Recht (1882)
- Der President (1884)
- Judith Trachtenberg (1890)
- Der Wahrheitsucher (1804)
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