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Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867 - August 26, 1921) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of Bavarian workaday. January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...

Ludwig Thoma

After graduation from school, the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in München and Erlangen. Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau, later in Munich. Forestry - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Map of Germany showing Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. ... Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. ... This article is about Dachau town. ...


After 1899, he worked with the Simplicissimus and published humorous narrations, comedies, novels and stories. 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. ... In fiction, a narrator is a voice or character who tells the story. ... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...


Originally pacifist, he changed his political attitudes towards the end of his life and drew up even anti-semitic texts (e.g. for the newspaper "Miesbacher Anzeiger"). During World War I he served as a paramedic. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Typical view of the defibrillator operator. ...


His best known works are Münchner im Himmel (A Municher in heaven), the Lausbubengeschichten (Brat stories) and Jozef Filsers Briefwexel (Jozef Filser's Corespontens).


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1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

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In 1936 Thoma was placed in charge of all ground troops supporting General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
Thoma took part in the invasion of Poland where he distinguished himself by carrying out a difficult wide movement through heavy woods and mountainous terrain and managed to take the Polish forces by surprise.
Thoma replaced Jurgen von Arnium as commander of the 17th Panzer Division and took part in Operation Barbarossa during the summer of 1941.
Ludwig Thoma Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography (176 words)
Ludwig Thoma, satirist, political essayist, playwright, and author of first-rate stories and novels, contributed a distinctly "Old-Bavarian" note to the literary concert during Germany's Wilhelminian era.
Deeply attached to the country and the plain people around the thriving Bavarian capital of Munich, he concentrated on the life of the farmers, portraying their characters, traditions, and work and, not infrequently, upholding their old ways and values against the conceits and artificialities of the increasingly bureaucratic society spawned by the industrial age.
Born in 1867 in Oberammergau, Thoma was the fifth of seven children of Max and Katharina Thoma.
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