Theodor Fontane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Theodor Fontane

German novelist and poet

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1819

Place of Birth: Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1898

Profession: writer, poet, pharmacist, historian, translator, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Theodor Fontane (German: ['t?e?odo?? f?n'ta?n?]; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author.
He only pulished the first of his novels, for which he is best-known today, at age 58 after a career as a journalist.
Fontanes novels are known for their complex, often skeptical view on the society in the German empire, he shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing.
Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (like Effi Briest and Frau Jenny Treibel), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters.