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August Schrader
1815–1878
A prolific 19th-century German novelist, translator, journalist, and sometime actor, he published a long list of popular fiction across the 1850s through the 1870s. His work ranged from novellas to multi-volume novels, and many of his books are now preserved in major digital libraries.
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About the author
Born in Wegeleben in 1815 and dying in Leipzig in 1878, August Schrader worked in several literary and theatrical roles over the course of his life. Reference sources describe him as a writer, actor, private teacher, publicist, and translator, which helps explain the breadth of his career.
Schrader appears to have been especially active as a novelist and storyteller. Bibliographic records and digital collections preserve a substantial body of his fiction, including serial and standalone works as well as longer multi-volume novels. That surviving record suggests he was a steady, versatile presence in the German reading world of his time.
Today, he is best encountered through digitized editions in public-domain collections, where modern readers can still browse a wide selection of his books. For anyone curious about 19th-century popular German fiction, his work offers a lively window into the tastes and storytelling styles of the period.