Franzos, Karl Emil (Czortkow, Galicia, 1848-1904, Berlin), the son of a doctor, studied law at Vienna and Graz universities, and then turned to journalism in Vienna. He travelled in south-eastern Europe and the Near East, exploiting some of his travels in Halbasien. Kulturbilder aus Galizien, der Bukowina, Südrußland und Rumänien (1878). He was primarily a writer of fiction, beginning with Novellen (Die Juden von Barnow, 1877) and then turning to novels (Moschko von Parma, 1880; Ein Kampf ums Recht, 1882). More Novellen appeared in 1886 (Tragische Novellen), and a series of novels, chiefly Galician in setting, followed (Die Schatten, 1888; Judith Trachtenberg, 1891; Der Wahrheitssucher, 1893; and Der Pojaz, 1905). In 1879 Franzos edited the works of G. Büchner, including Woyzeck, which had not previously been published. From 1884 to 1886 he edited the Viennese Neue Illustrierte Zeitung; moving in 1886 to Berlin he founded the journal Deutsche Dichtung, which appeared successively in Stuttgart, Dresden, and Berlin.

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