AUGUST BECKER
\ˈɔːɡəst bˈɛkə], \ˈɔːɡəst bˈɛkə], \ˈɔː_ɡ_ə_s_t b_ˈɛ_k_ə]\
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A German poet and novelist (1828-91); author of "Young Friedel, the Minstrel" (1854), a lyrical epic, and the novels: "The Rabbi's Bequest" (1866); "Proscribed" (1868); "The Carbuncle" (1870); "My Sister" (1876), descriptive of the doings of Lola Montez and the events of 1848 in Bavaria; "Painter Fairbeard" (1878); "The Sexton of Horst" (1889); "Gray Jane" (1890).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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