Karl Emil Franzos was born on October 25, 1848 in Tschortkiw, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Chortkiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for
The President (1919),
Judith Trachtenberg (1920) and
A Daughter of Her People (1933). He was married to Ottilie Benedikt. He died on January 28, 1904 in Berlin, Germany.