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4 unusual facts about Karl Emil Franzos


Karl Emil Franzos

The first languages he spoke were Ukrainian and Polish, learnt from his nurse; his first school was attached to the Czortkow Dominican abbey, where the teaching was in Latin and Polish; and he attended private lessons in Hebrew.

Franzos completed his edition in 1879, including plays like Danton's Death and Leonce and Lena.

He would have liked to study classical philology with the aim of becoming a teacher, but no scholarship was forthcoming.

This problem forms the subject of a number of his works, including two of his best novels, Judith Trachtenberg (1890) and Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child (1896).



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