Egon Friedell
Egon Friedell · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1878, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1938, Vienna, Austria
Austria
Egon Friedell is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Egon Friedell was an Austrian polymath, cultural historian, essayist, cabaret performer and drama critic, best known for his sweeping A Cultural History of the Modern Age. As the Nazis annexed Austria in the Anschluss, he took his own life to avoid arrest. Born to a Jewish family (as Friedmann), he had converted to Protestantism but was persecuted as a Jew.
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Literary & drama critic
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