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August Becker (27 April 1828 in Klingenmünster – 23 March 1891 in

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) was a German

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Biography

He studied at

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, from 1855 to 1859 was a member of the staff of the ''Allgemeine Zeitung'' of

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, and from 1859 to 1864 editor of the liberal ''Isar-Zeitung''. He published ''Jung-Friedel der Spielmann'' (Young Friedel, the Minstrel, 1854), a poem which established his reputation, and considerable fiction, including ''Des Rabbi Vermächtnis'' (The Rabbi's Bequest, 1866); ''Vervehmt'' (Proscribed, 1868), which was attacked for containing alleged portraitures of contemporaries of the

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n court; ''The Carbuncle'' (1870); ''My Sister'' (1876), descriptive of the doings of

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and the events of 1848 in Bavaria; ''Painter Fairbeard'' (1878); and ''Der Küster von Horst'' (The Sexton of Horst, 1889).

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* 1828 births 1891 deaths People from Südliche Weinstraße People from the Palatinate (region) Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate German male novelists 19th-century German novelists 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German writers {{Germany-novelist-stub