Karl Anton Frank

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Karl Frank (born February 23, 1909 in Munich ; † January 13, 1986 there ) was a German philologist and writer.

Life

The son of the royal Bavarian senior tax inspector Anton Frank grew up in Munich and, after primary school, attended Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from 1918 , where he graduated from high school in 1927 - with Rüdiger Freiherr von Hirschberg , Bernhard Rehm and Wilhelm Zoepf , among others . He then studied German and English for teaching at Bavarian grammar schools at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and after completing his legal traineeship, he taught at the Theresiengymnasium in Munich from May 1938 onwards . and as a teacher at other Bavarian high schools. During the Second World War he was drafted as a soldier. In 1965 he was put into early retirement as the director of studies due to illness.

Frank went on research trips into prehistory and wrote numerous non-fiction books as well as short stories and adventure novels for young people.

Work (selection)

  • Guns, silver and skeletons. According to old chronicles of the Rio Grande and next to it. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1970.
  • Gold, gallows birds and ghosts. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971.
  • When the sun eagle fell. The battle for the treasures of the Aztecs. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Death rode through Guatemala. Pedro de Alvarado's procession through Central America in 1524. According to his own and other Spanish accounts, as well as the chronicles of the Highland Maya. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973.
  • Ischi Maya. Ghost town in the Green Hell. Adventure stories. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974.
  • Storm from Atlantis. The adventure of a new prehistory. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • The last fight of the yellow puma. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977.
  • Atlantis was different. Publishing house for collectors , Graz 1978.
  • Sindbad, the wondrous adventures of the daring seafarer in distant lands and on foreign seas. With illustrations by Mouche Vormstein. Donauland, Vienna 1979.
  • Curved sword over Vienna. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1982.
  • I ride for Tamerlane. Historical youth novel. The life story of Johannes Schiltberger. 1986.

Web links

literature

  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Continued by Karl Ludwig Lang. Vol. 5: Filek-Fux. Francke, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7720-1265-5 , Sp. 290-291.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1826/27
  2. ^ Annual report on the Theresiengymnasium in Munich for the school year 1838/39. C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich, 1939, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Karl Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1986
Place of death Munich