author
Ewald Gerhard Seeliger
1877–1959
A prolific German novelist with a taste for adventure, satire, and life at sea, he is best remembered for the wildly popular comic crime novel Peter Voss, Thief of Millions. His stories often circle around Hamburg, travel, invention, and restless, larger-than-life characters.
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Peter Voß, der Millionendieb : Roman
by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger
About the author
Ewald Gerhard Seeliger was a German novelist born on October 11, 1877, in Rathau, Silesia, and he died on June 8, 1959, in Cham, Bavaria. Reliable reference sources describe him as a very productive writer, and his work is often associated with maritime settings, Hamburg, and a lively, humorous style.
Before establishing himself as a freelance author, he worked as a teacher, including periods in Silesia, Genoa, and Hamburg. His early books included Leute vom Lande (1901) and the novel Der Stürmer (1904), and he later gained attention with speculative and adventure-driven fiction such as England's Fiend (1910).
His best-known book is Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1913), a comic crime story that was adapted for film several times. He also published under forms of the name E.G. Seeliger and is remembered as an energetic, imaginative popular writer whose novels mixed humor, movement, and a strong feel for place.