Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger was born in 1895 in Heidelberg, the son of a chemist. In 1913 he joined the Foreign Legion, from which his father had him released. A volunteer in 1914, an officer in the assault troops, wounded fourteen times, he received the Pour le Mérite in 1918 and drew from his war notebooks a first book, in 1920. A figure of the nationalism hostile to the Weimar Republic, he refused in 1933 to join the German Academy of Literature. A staff officer in Paris during the Occupation, diarist and entomologist, he died in 1998 at the age of a hundred and two.

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• NovelOn the Marble CliffsAuf den MarmorklippenErnst Jünger · 1939Literature