Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch was a 20thcentury Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists.

Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his familys factory, though he maintained his literary interests privately. He was predestined to work in his fathers textile factory in Teesdorf, therefore, he attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college.

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