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Friedrich Huch
1873–1913
A gifted early-20th-century German novelist, he wrote with sharp insight about middle-class life and human vanity. Though he died young, his work was admired in his time and still stands out for its wit and psychological detail.
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Pitt und Fox, die Liebeswege der Brüder Sintrup: Roman
by Friedrich Huch
About the author
Friedrich Huch was a German writer born in Braunschweig on June 19, 1873, and he died in Munich on May 12, 1913. After finishing school in Dresden, he studied philosophy in Munich, Paris, and Erlangen, and also spent time working as a private tutor and traveling in Europe before settling in Munich.
He came from a notably literary family: he was related to the writer Ricarda Huch, and his grandfather was the travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker. His fiction is often described as closely observed and critical of bourgeois manners, with a style that places him near the literary world of his era without making him simply a copy of better-known contemporaries.
Although he is less widely read today, Huch had real success during his lifetime and is remembered as a distinctive voice in German literature of the early 1900s. His short life gives his career a sense of unfinished promise, which can make discovering his work especially rewarding.