Hermann Broch
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Hermann Broch 🇦🇹

Hermann Broch (Known as "Broch")
Modernist Master Novelist, Philosopher of Mass Psychology, Author of The Death of Virgil
Born 1886-11-01 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Passed Away 1951-05-25 New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Lifespan 64 years old
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"Literature is only legitimate when it dares to grasp the totality of human knowledge and metaphysical duty."

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Major twentieth-century philosophical novelist whose ambitious masterpieces, including the trilogy 'The Sleepwalkers' and 'The Death of Virgil', explored the breakdown of values in modern European civilization.

Biographical Record

Hermann Broch was born on November 1, 1886, in Vienna into a wealthy textile-manufacturing family. Selling his factories at age forty to study mathematics, philosophy, and psychology at the University of Vienna, Broch embarked on an extraordinary literary career aimed at diagnosing the spiritual crisis of modernity.

His landmark trilogy Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers, 1931–1932) analyzed the collapse of European moral values. Imprisoned by the Gestapo following the Anschluss in 1938, he was rescued through international appeals spearheaded by James Joyce and Aldous Huxley. In American exile, he completed his poetic stream-of-consciousness tour de force, Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil, 1945), before teaching at Yale.

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Killingworth Cemetery
Killingworth, Connecticut, United States
GPS: 41.3500, -72.5600
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