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Karl Friedrich May (/ maɪ / MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ⓘ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany. He also wrote poetry, a play, and composed music.
Feb 24, 2017 · His character Winnetou was as famous as Harry Potter, but the life of best-selling author Karl May, born 175 years ago, remains shrouded in mystery. What is fact and what is fiction?
Karl May was a German author of travel and adventure stories for young people, dealing with desert Arabs or with American Indians in the wild West, remarkable for the realistic detail that the author was able to achieve.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 2, 2012 · Karl May (pronounced “my”) is an adventure writer from the late nineteenth century whom most Americans have never heard of but whose stories of the American West are to this day better known to...
Mar 23, 2022 · A 19th-century German author, Karl Friedrich May wrote popular adventure novels about the American West — which later influenced Adolf Hitler. Hitler even wrote in "Mein Kampf" that he so devoured May's books as a child that his grades declined in school.
- Jessica Oconnor
Karl Friedrich May is born on 25 February, the son of a poor family of weavers in Ernstthal (now Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Saxony); nine of his 13 brothers and sisters die in early childhood. 1856 to 1863. After training as a teacher, he works as an assistant and factory school teacher.
Apr 24, 2020 · Karl Friedrich May (1842–1912) was as much Old Shatterhand himself as William Frederick Cody (1846–1917) was Buffalo Bill. What follows is an overview of Karl May’s life. The Villa Shatterhand in Radebeul near Dresden, Germany, ca. 1900.
