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Hugo Salus
1866–1929
A Prague doctor who also became a well-known German-language poet, he moved between medicine and literature with unusual ease. His work grew out of the rich cultural life of Prague at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Das blaue Fenster: Novellen
by Hugo Salus
About the author
Born on August 3, 1866, in what is now Česká Lípa, Hugo Salus was a physician, gynecologist, poet, and writer who spent much of his life in Prague. He wrote in German and belonged to the lively literary world of the city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Alongside his medical career, he published poetry and other literary work, building a reputation as an important German-language voice from Prague. His life and writing reflect the mixed cultural world of Bohemia under Austria-Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.
Salus died in Prague on February 4, 1929. Today he is remembered both for his medical profession and for the poems and prose that linked him to the wider German-speaking literary culture of his time.