biography
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Rosegger, Peter
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pseudonym P K (Petri Kettenfeir)
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pronunciation:
[roseger]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1843–1918)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Alpl, Steiermark, SE Austria. He came from a poor background and was a tailor's apprentice before finding a patron who enabled him to go to the Handelsakademie in Graz. His writing, which was influenced by his friend Ludwig Anzengruber, was extremely prolific, and included novels, short stories, and poetry written in dialect, making him one of the most popular German-speaking chroniclers of rural life. His novels, notably Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters (1875) and Waldheimat (1877), are largely autobiographical and show his own discomfort with the intrusion of the modern city on the idyll of the isolated countryside of his childhood. |
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