Franz Werfel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Werfel

Austrian-Bohemian author

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1890

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1945

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr.
1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority control	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 7789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat