The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Becker, August

BECKER, August, German poet and novelist: b. 1828; d. 1891. He was the author of &lsquo;Young Friedel, the Minstrel&rsquo; (1854), a lyrical epic; and of the novels &lsquo;The Rabbi's Bequest&rsquo; (1866); &lsquo;Proscribed&rsquo; (1868); &lsquo;The Carbuncle&rsquo; (1870); &lsquo;My Sister&rsquo; (1876), descriptive of the doings of Lola Montez and the

events of 1848 in Bavaria; &lsquo;Painter Fairbeard&rsquo; (1878); and &lsquo;The Sexton of Horst&rsquo; (1889).