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born 30 December 1819 in Neuruppin |
| 1819 |
born the son of a pharmacist |
| until 1833 |
high school in Neuruppin |
| 1836 |
starts his education as a pharmacist and works in several pharmacies |
| 1839 |
first novel "Geschwisterliebe" ("Sibling love") |
| 1844 | first journey to London, several longer residencies to follow through his work as a correspondent for the Prussian Intelligence Agency |
| 1849 |
abandons the profession of pharmacist in order to be a full-time writer and a journalist |
| 1850 |
married Emilie Rouanet-Kummer |
| 1862 - 1882 |
worked as a theatre critic of the "Vossische Zeitung" in Berlin |
| 1864, 1870 |
war correspondent in the Prussian-Danish and Franco-Prussian wars and arrested in France as war prisoner |
| 1871 | appointed knight of the Mecklenburg order of the Wendish Crown |
| 1894 | honorary doctor of the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-University of Berlin |
| 1896 |
published "Effi Briest", one of his most famous novels |
