Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

Franz Kafka

Born 3 Jul 1883 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Ancestors

Son of Hermann Kafka and Julie (Lowy) Kafka

Brother of Georg Kafka, Heinrich Kafka, Gabriela (Kafka) Hermann, Valerie Kafka and Otilie Kafka

Died 3 Jun 1924 at age 40 in Klosterneuburg, Tulln, Niederösterreich, Österreich

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Biography

Franz Kafka has Czech Roots.

Author of the depressing but universally read novel The Trial, Franz Kafka was a German-Jewish Praguer who, for much of his adult life, worked in relative obscurity as a sad Prague insurance clerk. In works like "Metamorphosis," The Castle, and Amerika, Kafka described surreal and suffocating worlds of confusion. Now many use the adjective Kafkaesque to mean “living in absurdity.” Anyone who tries to apply for anything at a state office here will know that Kafka’s world lives on.^[1]

Franz Kafka is Notable.

Franz Kafka , son of Hermann Kafka (1852 - 1931) and Julie (Lowy) Kalfka (1856 - 1934), was born on 3 July 1883 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.^[2]

He never married and had no children.^[2]

He died on 3 June 1924 in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, aged 40.^[2]