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Heimito von Doderer

Died in 1966

Heimito von Doderer was born in 1896 near Vienna, the son of an architect and public works contractor among the richest in the monarchy; he was taken prisoner in 1916 on the Galician front and spent four years in camps in Siberia. He took a doctorate in history in 1925, joined the Nazi party in 1933, turned away from it and, born a Protestant, converted to Catholicism in 1940. Mobilised again and taken prisoner in 1945, he afterwards worked as a reader for a publisher, then lived by his pen, and died in Vienna in 1966, aged seventy.

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