Junger, Ernst

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Ernst Junger
Name
Junger, ErnstGender: M
born on 29 March 1895 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon )
Place Heidelberg, Germany, 49n25, 8e43
Timezone MET h1e (is standard time)
Data source
Quoted BC/BRRodden Rating AA
Astrology data 08°30' 13°26 Asc. 25°09'



Biography

German novelist and essayist that was preoccupied with the power and glory of war causing him to be a controversial figure. He joined the French Foreign Legion at 18, was wounded seven times in WW I and was awarded German's highest decorations. His fiction books include, "The Storm of Steel" in 1929, "On Marble Cliffs" in 1947 and "The Glass Bees" in 1961. His non-fiction books were a gifted rendition of botany and entomology. Junger was classified as the world's second acid head with Albert Hofmann. He died February 17, 1998, six weeks before his 103rd birthday.

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Events

  • Death, Cause unspecified 17 February 1998 (age 102)

Source Notes

Steinbrecher quotes B.R.

Categories

  • Lifestyle : Social Life : Outdoors (Golfing)
  • Vocation : Business : Insurance fields
  • Vocation : Business : Top executive (CEO)
  • Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)
  • Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (Botany and entomology)
  • Vocation : Military : Wounded (Seven times)
  • Vocation : Military : Military service (French Foreign Legion)
  • Vocation : Military : Honors (Highest decorations)
  • Notable : Famous : First in Field (Second acid-head after Hofmann)
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs

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