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Franz Kafka

Died in 1924

Franz Kafka was born in Prague on 3 July 1883, the eldest son of a German-speaking Jewish merchant, and was educated in German, up to a doctorate in law in 1906. From 1908 to 1922 he was a jurist at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute of the Kingdom of Bohemia, and wrote mostly at night. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1917, he published only a few stories in his lifetime. He died on 3 June 1924 at the Kierling sanatorium, near Vienna, after asking his friend Max Brod to destroy his manuscripts.

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