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Theodor Fontane

Died in 1898

Theodor Fontane was born in 1819 in Neuruppin, into a Huguenot family. An apothecary like his father, he made his name with his ballads, then lived by journalism: correspondent in London for the Prussian government, editor at the Kreuzzeitung, drama critic at the Vossische Zeitung from 1870. He devoted five volumes to walks in the March of Brandenburg, and followed the wars from 1864 to 1871; in 1870, he was held prisoner for three months in France. He published his first novel only at fifty-eight and died in Berlin in 1898.

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