Emil Peters

Emil Peters was a German-language author whose work is now chiefly represented online by Jugend, Liebe und Leben (Youth, Love, and Life), a German book preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The book presents itself as a didactic work about the physical, emotional, and moral questions facing young people, especially around sexuality and personal development. That suggests Peters wrote in the tradition of early 20th-century social and educational nonfiction rather than as a novelist or entertainer.

Reliable biographical detail about his life appears to be scarce in the sources available here, so it is safer to remember him through the subject of his writing: a thoughtful, earnest attempt to guide young readers through the pressures and expectations of modern life in his time.