Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948)

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Name (English)
Karl Wolfskehl
Short name
Karl Wolfskehl
Year of birth
1869
Year of death
1948
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"Karl Wolfskehl (17 September 1869 – 30 June 1948) was a German Jewish author and translator.

He wrote poetry, prose and drama in German,

and translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Old/Middle High German into German.

Karl Wolfskehl was born in Darmstadt, Germany, the son of the banker and politician Otto Wolfskehl (1841–1907). He studied

Germanic philology and a range of humanities courses in Giessen, Leipzig and Berlin. Under Otto Behaghel, he gained a PhD with a dissertation on a topic in German mythology.

In 1898 he married Hanna de Haan, daughter of the Dutch conductor Willem de Haan at the court theatre in Darmstadt. They had two daughters, Judith (born 1899) and Renate (born 1901)." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.05.2021)
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