Edgar Maass

Edgar W. A. Maass (October 4, 1896 – January 6, 1964) was a German-American novelist of historical fiction.

Edgar Maass
Born(1896-10-04)October 4, 1896
Hamburg, Germany
DiedJanuary 6, 1964(1964-01-06) (aged 67)
Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationWriter (novelist)
NationalityGerman, American
Period20th century
GenreHistory, fiction
SpouseMae Brown
Children2

Biography

Maass was the son of the merchant Wilhelm Maass and his wife Martha Anna Moje. His younger brothers Waldemar and Joachim were also noted writers. After graduation and participation in the First World War, he studied medicine at the University of Rostock and graduated in 1921 with a doctorate on the treatment of gonorrhea. He also studied chemistry at the Technical Universities of Hanover and Munich and completed his education in 1924.[1]

He worked as a research chemist in Germany before moving to the United States in 1926. He became a citizen in 1933.[2] He began his literary career in the mid-1930s. One of his first novels entitled Verdun was inspired by his experiences in the war. Edwin Zeydel described Verdun as "one of the finest German war novels, thoroughly human without false heroism or sham."[3]

He collaborated with a group of writers which included Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach, Friedo Lampe and Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind who met in the Berlin home of the Jewish doctor and patron Lothar Luft.[4]

In the following years he wrote novels with historical-biographical themes such as The Great Fire (1939) on the Hamburg fire of May 1842, and Imperial Venus, about Napoleon's sister, Josephine. The Queen's Physician, about Johann Friedrich Struensee in the Danish court of Christian III, was a Book of the Month Club selection in 1949.[2] His works have been translated into several languages such as Danish, English, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Czech.

A resident of Lincoln Park, New Jersey, Maass died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey at age 67 on January 6, 1964.[2]

Works
  • November Battle (1935)
  • The Order (1936)
  • Verdun (1936)
  • Despair (1937)
  • In the Mist of Time (1938)
  • Lessing (1938)
  • The Great Fire (1939)
  • The Queen's Physician (1948)
  • Imperial Venus (1952)
  • A Lady at Bay (1953)
  • The Dream of Philip the Second (1954)
  • Don Pedro And The Devil (1954)
  • The Case of Daubray (1957)
  • A Lady Of Rank (1965)

Source:[5]

gollark: People were complaining about supply chain disruption and how clearly everywhere needs to be self-sufficient during the start of the whole people-noticing-COVID-19 thing, but it seems like, on the whole, there was mostly food and stuff around and it got resolved fairly fast.
gollark: Stuff does manage to mostly function, most of the time, somehow.
gollark: I kind of want to read Worm, or at least some of it, to actually understand what half of this is about.
gollark: In TCP, that is.
gollark: I'm interested in it, but it's several million words or something so I've been scared off reading it.

References
  1. Laugwitz, Uwe (1987). Edgar Maass (in German). Deutsche Biographie.
  2. "Edgar Maass Dead; Historical Novelist". The New York Times. January 8, 1964. p. 37.
  3. Zeydel, Edwin H (1937). "A Survey of German Literature during 1936". The Modern Language Journal. 21 (7): 477. JSTOR 317195.
  4. Sevin, Dieter (1981). "JOACHIM MAASS: Exil Ohne Ende". Colloquia Germanica (in German). 14 (1): 1–25. JSTOR 23979548.
  5. "Edgar Maass". Author and Book Info.


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