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Ernst Weiss

Died in 1940

Ernst Weiss (1882-1940), born in Brünn, in Moravia, the son of a Jewish cloth merchant, specialised in surgery in Bern, Berlin and Vienna. To cure tuberculosis, he signed on as ship's doctor with the Austrian Lloyd as far as India and Japan, then served during the war as a regimental doctor in Hungary and Volhynia. Thomas Mann regarded him as one of the strongest talents of the new prose, but he never found a wide readership. An exile in Paris from 1934, supported by friends and relief organisations, he took his own life when German troops entered the city.

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