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For the theologian, see Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher, born at Eisenberg, Thuringia.-Education and Life:...

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Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936) was an Austria

Austria

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n writer

German literature

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and journalist

Journalism

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, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist

Aphorism

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, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German

Germany

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culture, and German and Austrian politics.
Kraus was born into a wealthy Jewish

Judaism

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family of Jacob Kraus, a papermaker, and his wife Ernestine, née Kantor, in Jičín

Jicín

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, Bohemia

Kingdom of Bohemia

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(now the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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