Author · Austria
Rainer Maria Rilke
Died in 1926
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was born in Prague, was placed in military schools which he left in 1891 on account of illness, then studied art history, literature and law in Prague, Munich and Berlin. His meeting with Lou Andreas-Salomé, in 1897, decided him on poetry; in 1901 he married the sculptor Clara Westhoff, arrived in Paris in 1902 to write about Rodin and was his secretary in 1905 and 1906. He travelled in North Africa, Egypt and Spain, settled in Switzerland in 1919, and died of leukaemia in December 1926, at the Valmont sanatorium, near Montreux.
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- NovelThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids BriggeRainer Maria Rilke · 1910LiteraturePublic domain