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Hugo Bertsch
1851–1935
A German writer and trained furrier, he built a life that stretched from a small town in Württemberg to Brooklyn, with years of travel in between. His work carries the feel of someone who had seen a great deal of the world and wanted to turn experience into story.
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Die Geschwister
by Hugo Bertsch
About the author
Born on October 7, 1851, in Margrethausen in Württemberg, Hugo Bertsch was a German author who later died in Brooklyn, New York, on August 24, 1935. Reference sources also identify him as a trained furrier, a trade that remained part of his life even as he wrote and published books.
Accounts connected with his autobiographical work Bilderbogen aus meinem Leben say that he traveled through France, England, North and South America, and New Zealand before settling in New York. That wide-ranging life helps explain the worldly, observant quality associated with his writing.
Bertsch is remembered today mainly through library and public-domain records that preserve his books, including editions available through Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs. Even in brief biographical notices, he stands out as a writer whose path joined craft, migration, and literature across two continents.