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Gustav Meyrink

Died in 1932

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), born Gustav Meyer in Vienna, the natural son of a Württemberg minister and an actress, founded a bank in Prague at the age of twenty-three. Accused of fraud in 1902, he spent several months in detention; the charge was dropped, but his reputation as a banker was lost. He turned to satire, the occult sciences and spiritualism, wrote for Simplicissimus, translated Dickens into German to earn a living, and in 1911 settled on the shores of Lake Starnberg, where he died.

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