biography
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Hartmann, Carl Sadakichi
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1867–1944)
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| biography:
| Writer and art critic, born in Nagasaki, Japan. His Japanese mother died shortly after his birth, and he was brought up by his uncle in Hamburg, Germany. He emigrated to Philadelphia (1882), became Walt Whitman's assistant (1884–5), then returned to Europe where he was associated with Mallarmé. He became an American citizen in 1894, and settled in California. Known as the ‘King of Bohemia’, he sired many children by various women, and died in poverty. He wrote a number of free-verse plays, poetry, and art criticism. |
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