Lion Feuchtwanger

Ian Wallace (University of Bath)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 7 Jul 1884
Died 21 Dec 1958
Activity 1903-1958

Places

Born in Germany
Active in France; Germany; United States

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Essayist
Man/ Woman of Letters
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Feuchtwanger's Works

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The German novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger was born in Munich on 7 July 1884 as the eldest of the nine children of a prosperous businessman, Sigmund Feuchtwanger, and his wife Johanna. As a schoolboy Feuchtwanger turned his back on the orthodox Judaism and bourgeois conventionality of his parents, seeking an alternative in literature, philosophy and the world of the theatre. Nevertheless, his upbringing left him with the knowledge of the Talmud, the Bible and Hebrew which was to underpin all his work. He proved a gifted student of German literature and history at university in Munich and Berlin, but after completing a doctorate on Heine's

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in 1907 he gave up the prospect of an academic career for an uncertain future as a writer.

His first book, Die Einsamen

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Citation: Wallace, Ian. "Lion Feuchtwanger". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 December 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1514, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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