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Friedrich von Spielhagen.
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Friedrich von Spielhagen

German writer
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Born:
February 24, 1829, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [Germany]
Died:
February 25, 1911, Berlin, Germany (aged 82)

Friedrich von Spielhagen (born February 24, 1829, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [Germany]—died February 25, 1911, Berlin, Germany) was a popular writer whose works are considered representative of the social novel in Germany. After studying at the Universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Greifswald, Spielhagen was a teacher in a Gymnasium (high school) at Leipzig, but after 1854 he became entirely involved with literature. From 1878 to 1884 he was editor of Westermanns Monatshefte; he was also an active partisan in democratic movements. After two earlier novels, he achieved wide success with Problematische Naturen, 4 vol. (1861; Problematic Characters), considered one of the ...(100 of 204 words)

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