Author · Austria
Ferdinand von Saar
Died in 1906
Ferdinand von Saar (1833-1906) was born in Vienna into a family of senior civil servants and lost his father at five months. Having entered the army at sixteen at the wish of his guardian, he took part as an officer in the Italian campaign of 1859, then left the service, in debt, to write. He then lived on the support of aristocratic patrons who received him in their castles in Moravia, and was imprisoned several times for debt. Appointed to the House of Lords in 1902, ravaged by cancer, he took his own life in Vienna.
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