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Norbert Jacques

Died in 1954

Norbert Jacques was born on 6 June 1880 at Eich, near Luxembourg. After two semesters of law in Bonn, he became a journalist in Germany, notably for the Frankfurter Zeitung, and travelled to Brazil in 1905, to the Far East and South America in 1912 and 1913, then to the Andes in 1928. A German-language novelist, author of Funchal in 1909 and Ingenieur Mars in 1923, he gave his most famous character a sequel in 1950 and died in 1954.

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