Zweig, Stefan

Zweig, Stefan
(1881–1942)
   Austrian writer. A sensitive humanist with a marked psychological insight, Zweig became famous for a series of biographical studies, including Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots. He also wrote poetry, short stories, critical essays and a pacifist drama, Jeremiah (1922; German original 1918). His novel about a crippled girl, Beware of Pity (1939; German original 1938), became a successful film. Some of his themes were Jewish, notably the story The Buried Candelabrum (1937). With the rise of Hitler, he took refuge in Britain, and then in Brazil. He committed suicide, together with his second wife, after writing a melancholy autobiography, The World of Yesterday (1943; German origi nal 1942).

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  • ZWEIG, STEFAN — (1881–1942), Austrian playwright, essayist, and biographer. The son of a wealthy Viennese industrialist, Zweig had an early and auspicious start in literature, publishing at the age of 20 his first verse collection, Silberne Saiten (1901). When… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Zweig,Stefan — Zweig, Stefan. 1881 1942. Austrian writer of poetry, fiction, and sensitive psychoanalytic biographies, notably Three Masters (1920), a study of Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky. * * * …   Universalium

  • Zweig, Stefan — born Nov. 28, 1881, Vienna, Austro Hungarian Empire died Feb. 22, 1942, Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, Braz. Austrian writer. He was deeply influenced by Sigmund Freud, whose theories on psychology informed Zweig s analyses of historical… …   Universalium

  • Zweig, Stefan — ► (1881 1942) Escritor austríaco. Tanto en sus biografías noveladas, como en sus novelas, describe procesos morbosos y se muestra psicólogo ingenioso. La aparición de su relato El amor de Erika Ewald (1904) inició una amplia obra literaria. * * * …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Zweig, Stefan — (1881 1942)    Austrian author. He was born in Vienna and became a member of the Young Vienna group of Jewish intellectuals. In 1918 he wrote a pacifist play Jeremiah. His works include a number of biographies, The Buried Candelabrum and Beware… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • Stefan Zweig — um 1900 Signatur von Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (* 28. November 1 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Stefan Zweig — en 1900 Nacimiento 28 de noviembre de 1881 Viena, Austria …   Wikipedia Español

  • Stefan Zweig — (November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria ndash; February 22, 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.LifeZweig was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer)… …   Wikipedia

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