author
Charles Sealsfield
1793–1864
An Austrian-born writer who reinvented himself in America, he turned his travels and sharp political interests into vivid German-language novels about the United States. His life was as dramatic as his fiction, moving from monastery walls to journalism, exile, and literary fame.
4 Audiobooks
The Americans as they are : Described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi
by Charles Sealsfield
Taistelu paalumajalla
by Charles Sealsfield
Transatlantische Reiseskizzen und Christopherus Bärenhäuter. Erstes Bändchen.
by Charles Sealsfield
Transatlantische Reiseskizzen und Christophorus Bärenhäuter. Zweites Bändchen.
by Charles Sealsfield
About the author
Born in 1793 in Moravia as Carl Anton Postl, he was educated for the priesthood and entered a religious order in Prague. In the early 1820s he broke away from that life, left the Habsburg world behind, and eventually adopted the name Charles Sealsfield.
Time in the United States shaped both his identity and his writing. He worked as a journalist and became known for novels and travel writing that brought American settings, politics, and frontier energy to German-speaking readers, helping make him one of the early interpreters of America in European literature.
Sealsfield spent his later years in Switzerland, where he died in 1864. Today he is remembered not only for his adventurous personal story, but also for the way his books connected European readers to the young American republic.