OBITUARY
STEFAN ZWEIG
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 23. The author Stefan Zweig and his wife committed suicide in their home at Petropolis. ' '
Stefan Zweig, who won fame as a writer of popular biographies, was an Austrian-born and educated in Vienna, but became a naturalised Englishman. His best-known works are his biographies of Marie Antoinette, which inspired the film of the same name, Magellan ("The Conqueror of the Seas"), and Mary, Queen of Scots. He also wrote short novels, and studies of Fouche and Romain., Rolland, as well as a play "Volpone," essays on mental healers and egoists, on Erasmus, and "The Right to Heresy." Formerly he lived in Bath. Petropolis is a German colony in Brazil, 28 miles north of Rio.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 6
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