Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born in Brody, in eastern Galicia, on the borders of Austria-Hungary, into a Jewish family, and never knew his father, who had left on a journey before his birth. A student in Lemberg and then in Vienna, a soldier from 1916 to 1918, he became one of the great German-language reporters, sent by the Frankfurter Zeitung to Paris, to the Soviet Union and to Albania. In exile in Paris from 1933, a supporter of a Habsburg restoration, he lived in a hotel and died at forty-four in a hospital for the destitute, worn out by alcohol.

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• NovelThe Radetzky MarchRadetzkymarschJoseph Roth · 1932LiteraturePublic domain