Jesco von Puttkamer

Born in Charlottenburg on March 12, 1858, Jesco von Puttkamer was a German publicist, travel writer, novelist, and publisher. Reference works also note that he used several alternate names and pseudonyms, including Johannes von Parten and Ernst von Bernouilly.

German biographical sources describe him as a military man as well as a writer, and they place his death in Dresden on January 23, 1916. He is remembered above all as a prolific literary figure whose career crossed several forms at once: journalism, travel writing, fiction, and publishing.

His surviving bibliography points to a writer with broad interests rather than a single narrow specialty. Project Gutenberg lists Geschwister Plüddekamp among his works, and library records identify him specifically as a Reiseschriftsteller—a travel writer—suggesting a body of writing shaped by movement, curiosity, and a taste for reporting the wider world to readers at home.