Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945
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Name (Hebrew)
ורפל, פרנץ, 1890-1945
Name (Latin)
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945
Name (Arabic)
ورفل، فرانز، 1890-1945
Name (Cyrilic)
Верфель, Франц, 1890-1945
Other forms of name
ווערפעל, פרנץ, 1890-1945
וורפל, פראנץ בן רודולף
Date of birth
1890-09-10
Date of death
1945-08-26
Place of birth
Prague (Czech Republic)
Place of death
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
מקום לידה: פראג
מקום לידה: Prague
תאריך לידה עברי: כה אלול תר"ן [10.9.1890]
מקום פטירה: בוורלי הילס [לוס אנג'לס, קאליפורניה, ארצות הברית]
מקום פטירה: Beverly Hills
תאריך פטירה עברי: יז אלול תש"ה [26.8.1945].
Sources of Information
- ספר: ארבעים הימים של מוסה דאג, תשס"ג 2003.
- LCN
- The Author's Верди, 1962.
- Werfel, Franz
- Лат. кат.
- Record enhanced with data from Bibliography of the Hebrew Book database
- W. Kosch, Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Bd. 4, 2. Aufl., Bern 1958, p. 3305-3306
- Meyers Handbuch ueber die Literatur, Mannheim 1964, p. 859-860
- Who was who in America 1943-1950, p. 567.
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Wikipedia description:
Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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