Background
One of his nephews was Friedrich Gerstäcker and one his cousins was Ricarda Huch on his mother"s side. His father killed himself in 1888.
One of his nephews was Friedrich Gerstäcker and one his cousins was Ricarda Huch on his mother"s side. His father killed himself in 1888.
After his Reifeprüfung in Dresden, he studied philosophy at the universities of Munich, Paris and Erlangen.
He worked as a personal tutor in Hamburg and Lubocheń, Poland, and travelled trough Italy before moving to Munich to become an independent writer At the age of 39, he died unexpectedly because of complications after a middle ear surgical procedure. Thomas Mann said his panegyric.