Ferdinand Gross Album Sheet from 1892. Austrian Writer

Ferdinand Gross , Austrian writer ( 1849 - 1900 ). His ancestors lived in Italy. Ferdinand began his literary activity when a boy of fifteen. He joined the editorial staff of the "Extrablatt" in 1872, and in 1877 won the first prize of the Berliner Literarisches Centralbureau for his feuilleton "Litterarische Zukunftsmusik."

In 1879 he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main to become feuilleton editor of the "Frankfurter Zeitung." In 1881 Gross returned to Vienna and joined the editorial staff of the "Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung." For a time he was the feuilletonist of the "Neue Wiener Tageblatt," and editor of the "Extra-Post." He was president of the Concordia, an association of Vienna journalists, from 1898 until 1900.

Among his works are the following: "Geheimnisse," one-act comedietta, Vienna, 1877; "Kleine Muenze," sketches, Breslau; "Nichtig und Fluechtig," sketches, Leipzig, 1880; "Mit dem. Bleistift," sketches, Breslau, 1881; "Der Erste Brief," comedy, Vienna, 1883; "Litterarische Modelle," Berlin, 1887 "Gedichte," 1887; "Goethe's Werther in Frankreich"; ......

7 x 4,2 inches. Fine condition.

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