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Franz Xaver Kappus

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Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer (1883-1966)

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Franz Xaver Kappus was an Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer who wrote poetry, short-stories, novels and screenplays.

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Franz Xaver Kappus was an Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer who wrote poetry, short-stories, novels and screenplays. Kappus is known chiefly as the military academy cadet who wrote to Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) for advice in a series of letters from 1902 to 1908 that were assembled and published in the best-selling book Letters to a Young Poet (1929).

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Germany
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1883 to 1966 · aged 83
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