biography
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Auerbach, Berthold
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originally Moses Baruch Auerbacher
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pronunciation:
[owerbakh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–82)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Nordstetten, SW Germany. He studied at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, and Heidelberg, and developed a special interest in Spinoza, on whose life he based a novel (1837), and whose works he translated (1841). In his Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (1843, Black Forest Village Stories), on which his fame chiefly rests, he gives charming pictures of Black Forest life. |
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