Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881 into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in the capital of Austria-Hungary. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1904. In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. He wrote short novels and stories, such as Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922) and The Royal Game (1941), and the novel Beware of Pity (1939). He was also famous for lively biographies and historical studies, including Three Masters (1920), on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky, Decisive Moments in History (1927), Marie Antoinette (1932) and Mary Stuart (1935). In 1934, after the rise of the Nazis, he left Austria for England, and in 1940 he moved to New York and then to Brazil, which he praised in the book Brazil, Land of the Future. Increasingly despairing about the fate of Europe, he and his wife Lotte died together at their home in Petrópolis in 1942. His memoir, The World of Yesterday, appeared after his death.

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Faith: Born into a Jewish family; he did not renounce his Jewish faith and wrote often on Jewish themes. Source: Wikipedia