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Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936

LC control no.n 79108035
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML423.K77 Biography in music
PT2621.R27
Personal name headingKraus, Karl, 1874-1936
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Birth date1874-04-28
Death date1936-06-12
Place of birthJičin (Bohemia)
Place of deathVienna (Austria)
Profession or occupationActors Journalists Satirists
Found inHis Heine und die folgen, c1910.
Die letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit, 1992: t.p. (Karl Kraus) p. 269 (satirist; journalist and literary author; b. 6-4-1856; d. 12-30-1936)
Deutsches Lit.-Lex., 1968 (Kraus, Karl, b. 4-28-1874 in Jičin/Bohemia, d. 6-12-1936 in Vienna; actor, journalist; literary author, satirist)
His Last days of mankind, 2015: dust jacket (The Austrian Jewish author Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the foremost German-language satirist of the twentieth century. As editor of the journal Die Fackel (The Torch) he conducted a sustained critique of propaganda and the press, expressed through polemical essays, witty aphorisms, and resonant poems)