!!!Franzos, Karl Emil

Franzos, Karl Emil, b. Czortków (Ukraine), Oct. 25, 1848, 
d. Berlin (Germany), Jan. 28, 1904, author and journalist. After 
he had studied law in Vienna and Graz he embarked on a journalistic 
career. Wrote books on travel about the Eastern crown lands ("Aus 
Halb-Asien. Kulturbilder aus Galizien, der Bukovina, Suedrussland und 
Rumaenien", 2 vols., 1876), novellas and novels on the life of 
Jews in Eastern Galicia and of Ruthenian farmers. In 1879 F. published 
for the first time ever the works of G. Buechner and his unpublished 
manuscripts. From 1884-1886 published the weekly newspaper "Wiener 
Illustrierte Zeitung". In 1886 moved to Berlin and edited the magazine 
"Deutsche Dichtung" (German poetry) until 1904. His most important 
work, "Der Pojaz", an entwicklungsroman, was published posthumously in 
1905.

!Works
Die Juden von Barnow, 1877; Moschko von Parma, 1880; Ein Kampf 
ums Recht, 2 vols, 1882; Dt. Dichterbuch aus Oe., 1883 (ed.); Judith 
Trachtenberg, 1891; Der Wahrheitssucher, 2 vols, 1893. Editions: Die 
Geschichte des Erstlingswerks, 1894 (includes an autobiography).

!Literature
J.-D. Lim, Das Leben und Werk des Schriftstellers 
K. E. F., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1982; S. Hubach, 
Galizische Traeume, 1986; H. Wuertz (ed.), K. E. F., exhibition 
catalogue, Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, 1998.



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