Famous writers in history

Stefan Sveig November 28, 1881 - February 22, 1942. German novelist, biographer, researcher and publicist. He committed suicide on February 22, 1942, while sleeping with his wife Lotte at the Petropolis home in Rio de Janeiro. This stemmed from pessimism about Hitler's continued interpretation of the world order and his view that his world would never exist. He was buried with a state funeral in Petropolis. His house in Petropolis was turned into a museum.

Austrian writer Stefan Sveig's suicide letter has been published on the Internet by the National Library of Israel. On the 70th anniversary of the famous writer's death, the library released several documents, including a suicide note, to readers online. Stefan Sveig, born in 1881, left Austria in 1934 after Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology came to power. Sweig, who first went to England and then to the United States, settled in Brazil, where he died on February 22, 1942.

A Brazilian doctor received a suicide note from Stefan Sveig from a police officer in the 1960s and donated it to the National Library of Israel 30 years later.
Writer's suicide letter:
"As I leave this life with free will and an open conscience, I have one last responsibility to fulfill: I want to express my sincere gratitude to Brazil, a wonderful country that has given me and my work a peaceful environment.

With each new day, I learned to love this country more and more, I could not rebuild my life so lovingly anywhere in the world after my spiritual homeland Europe destroyed itself and the world of my mother tongue disappeared.

But restarting after the age of sixty requires a very special power. And my strength was exhausted after years of stateless travel. For this reason, I believe it would be good to end my life at the right time and in the right way.

Throughout my life, my spiritual pursuits, my greatest source of pleasure, and my personal freedom have been my highest values. Greetings to all my friends! May all of them see the gold of the place that came after a long night! I'm always looking forward to it. "

He is the author of "Letter from an Unknown Woman", Twenty-Four Hours of a Woman, Joseph Fuchs, Portrait of a Politician, Star Hours of Humanity, The World of Yesterday, The Victory and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Casanova, Fighters with the Devil, Chess and other works.
Franz Kafka was born in 1883 to a Jewish family in the Josef district of Prague's former ghetto.

Kafka's sisters: Elli, Valli, Ottla

In addition to his brothers George and Heinrich, who died as children, Franz Kafka had three sisters: Gabriele, Valerie and Ottilie Kafka. All three were killed in a concentration camp by German Nazis during World War II.

His major works include the novel, fragments of the novel The Trial, The Castle and the Missing, stories, as well as correspondence with Felise Bauer and Milena Yesenska.

Many of Kafka's works were published after his death by his friend and fellow writer Max Brod, contrary to his will. These works had a great influence on the world literature of the XX century.

In August 1917, Kafka was bleeding one night. Doctors diagnosed him with tuberculosis.

During his stay in Berlin from 1923 to 1924, the disease affected his throat, and as a result, Kafka gradually lost the ability to speak, and the resulting pain made it difficult to even eat and drink. In 1924, while being treated at the Vinervald Sanatorium, a family friend, Dr. Hugo Krause was diagnosed with laryngeal tuberculosis. Kafka's deteriorating condition did not allow him to be operated on. Franz Kafka went to the Kirling sanatorium and died there on June 3, 1924. Heart failure has been officially cited as the cause of death.