Karl Gutzkow

Karl Gutzkow (born March 17, 1811, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died Dec. 16, 1878, Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt am Main) was a novelist and dramatist who was a pioneer of the modern social novel in Germany. Gutzkow began his career as a journalist and first attracted attention with the publication of Maha Guru, Geschichte eines Gottes (1833; “Maha Guru, Story of a God”), a fantastic satirical romance. In 1835 he published Wally, die Zweiflerin (“Wally, the Doubter”), an attack...