Robert Wilhelm Horn

Robert Wilhelm Horn , pseudonym F. R. Nord (* 1875 in Pulsnitz , Ober lausitz ; † July 15, 1936 near Ljubljana ) was a German writer .

Life

He studied law in Germany , geography and economics in England and France . From 1903 Horn worked as a prospector for English companies. In this role he traveled to southern Russia , Central Asia , the Kyrgyz Steppes and Siberia , in 1910 also northern Persia , and in 1912 eastern Turkey . During the First World War he stayed in Syria , Iraq , Kurdistan , Persia and Anatolia . In 1919 he returned to Germany.

Now he began to work as a writer and wrote, mostly under the pseudonym FR Nord , also as RW Horn, a total of 13 adventure novels , all of which are set in Asia . The hero of the action is usually a German or European engineer . In his first work Ker-Ali (1920) a German joins Afghan rebels and falls in love with an exotic beauty. Also in 1920 his novel Ssir-Anusch , which deals with the genocide of the Armenians , was published. In this novel, Armenian poems are interspersed in the translation by Siegfried von Vegesack .

The Land Without Laughing (1921) describes the fate of a Russian spy in Central Asia , Black Kalpak (1925) plays in the Turkish War of Liberation , Nafusha (1927) deals with a young harem lady in India and Arabia . Contemporary criticism praised Horn's novels for the color representation and the authenticity of his descriptions.

Horn was killed in a plane crash near Ljubljana . After the Second World War , his novels were no longer printed.

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