biography
pronunciation:
[foontahnuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1819–98)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Neuruppin, NE Germany. He worked in the family chemist's business until he took to literature in Berlin (1849). Periods of residence in Britain (1855–9) as a newspaper correspondent led to ballads such as ‘Archibald Douglas’, and other British-based pieces. His later realistic novels influenced Thomas Mann; the first of them, Vor dem Sturm (1878, Before the Storm), an account of Prussian nobility, was followed by L'Adultera (1882) and Effi Briest (1898). |
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