Author · Switzerland
Gottfried Keller
Died in 1890
Gottfried Keller was born on 19 July 1819 in Zurich, the son of a master turner whom he lost as a child. Expelled in 1834 from the cantonal industrial school after a disciplinary incident, he wanted to be a painter, spent two years in Munich and gave it up. He then studied in Heidelberg, where he came under the influence of Ludwig Feuerbach, then lived for more than five years in Berlin. From 1861 to 1876, he was first secretary of state of the canton of Zurich. He never married and died in Zurich on 15 July 1890.
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- Short storiesClothes Make the ManKleider machen LeuteGottfried Keller · 1874Literature