Friedrich Spielhagen
Friedrich Spielhagen was a German novelist, literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s, but atbegan writing and translating. His best known novel is Sturmflut and his novel In Reih und Glied was quite successful in Russia.
Spielhagen was born in Magdeburg and brought up in Stralsund, where his father was appointed a government architect in 1835. He attended the gymnasium in Stralsund, studied law, and subsequently literature and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Bonn and Greifswald.
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