Gerhart Hauptmann (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Gerhart Hauptmann (HOWPT-mahn), probably Germany’s greatest modern playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper in the Silesian village of Obersalzbrunn. As a child, he grew up under the influence of his parents’ Moravian religion in a home that was remarkable for its air of piety and mysticism. As a young man, Hauptmann failed to prepare himself adequately for a career at one of the German universities and as a result studied agriculture for a time. He left the soil, however, to study art at the Royal College of Art at Breslau in 1880-1881. He went to Rome to study sculpture in...
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