biography
| name: |
Beer-Hofmann, Richard
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pronunciation:
[bair hofman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1945)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Vienna, Austria. After adopting the Jewish faith, he emigrated to New York in 1938 via Zurich. He was a friend of Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler. In his dramatic works, such as Jaákovs Traum (1918) and Der Junge David (1933), and the story Der Tod Georgs (1900), he drew on the Old Testament for inspiration. |
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