Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (died 1898)

Theodor Fontane

German journalist, novelist and poet

Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve…