Human Accomplishment: Theodor Fontane

a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author.

Born

30 December 1819 Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Prussia

Died

20 September 1898 (aged 78) Berlin, German Empire

Nationality

German

Occupation

Writer

adultbasic

Germany

Children

7 (four of them lived into adulthood)

era

1800+

Genre

Novel

Notable works

Effi Briest, On Tangled Paths, The Stechlin, Frau Jenny Treibel

Period

19th century

Spouse

Emilie Rouanet-Kummer (1824–1902; m. 1850, until his death)

Theodor Fontane