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4 unusual facts about Karl Emil Franzos


Karl Emil Franzos

The first languages he spoke were Ukrainian and Polish, learnt from his nurse; his first school was attached to the Czortkow Dominican abbey, where the teaching was in Latin and Polish; and he attended private lessons in Hebrew.

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Franzos completed his edition in 1879, including plays like Danton's Death and Leonce and Lena.

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He would have liked to study classical philology with the aim of becoming a teacher, but no scholarship was forthcoming.

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This problem forms the subject of a number of his works, including two of his best novels, Judith Trachtenberg (1890) and Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child (1896).



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