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Franz Xavier Kappus

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Born
May 17, 1883
Died
October 9, 1966
Country
Austria
IPI
00015862781 1 work
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Military officer, journalist, editor and writer who wrote poetry, short-stories, novels and screenplays. He is known chiefly as the military academy cadet who wrote to Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) for advice in a series of letters from 1902 to 1908 that were assembled and published in the 1929 best-selling book "Briefe an einen jungen Dichter" (Letters to a Young Poet).
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