Gabriel Ferry
Gabriel Ferry , actually Eugène Louis Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare (born November 29, 1809 in Grenoble , † January 5, 1852 ) was a French writer and adventure novelist .
life and work
Gabriel Ferry, also known as the French Cooper , grew up in Grenoble and, after finishing school, joined his father's business, a trading company that did commission business with Mexico . As a representative of his house, he stayed mainly in Mexico from 1831 to 1837 and then returned to his French homeland. Until 1840 he worked again in his father's shop.
He then accepted a job as an insurance agent and was sent to the debt prison after the insurance company went bankrupt . After his release he began to work as a writer in 1843. In 1846 he was employed by the magazine Revue des Deux Mondes . His best-known work, Le Coureur des Bois , he published in 1850. Other Wild West novels were Costal l'Indien , Les Gambusinos and Les Squatters , but these were soon forgotten.
On January 2, 1852, he embarked on the passenger ship Amazon for another crossing to America. The British steamship was on its way to California when it caught fire from a lightning strike and sank west of the English Channel.
Le Coureur des Bois was edited under the title Der Waldläufer in 1879 by Karl May "for the youth".
literature
- Heinrich Pleticha, Siegfried Augustin: Lexicon of adventure and travel literature from Africa to Winnetou. Edition Erdmann in K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart, Vienna, Bern 1999, ISBN 3 522 60002 9
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriel Ferry in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on ablit.de
- The Ranger by Gabriel Ferry. Scan of the German translation from 1851 (Bielefeld University Library)
- Ship sinking
- Works by Gabriel Ferry in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Kandolf: Karl May and Gabriel Ferry. Based on essays from the Karl May yearbooks 1932 and 1933. In: Gabriel Ferry / Karl May: Der Waldläufer. Story from the Wild West based on the novel by Gabriel Ferry, edited and redesigned by Karl May. Karl May Verlag, Bamberg 1959, pp. 471–479.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferry, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bellemare, Eugène Louis Gabriel Ferry (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French novelist and adventure novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenoble |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1852 |
| Place of death | English Channel |