biography
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Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte
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pronunciation:
[fookay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1777–1843)
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| biography:
| Romantic writer, born in Brandenburg, EC Germany. He served as a Prussian cavalry officer, devoting himself between campaigns to literary pursuits. He published a long series of romances based on Norse legend and old French poetry, his masterpiece being Undine (1811). |
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