Born: 6-Nov-1880
Birthplace: Klagenfurt, Austria
Died: 15-Apr-1942
Location of death: Geneva, Switzerland
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Remains: Cremated (ashes thrown into river Rhône)

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

Military service: Austrian Army (1914-18, WWI)

Father: Alfred Musil (engineer, b. 1846, d. 1924)
Mother: Hermine (b. 1853, d. 1924)
Wife: Martha Marcovaldi (Jewish, d. 1949)

    High School: (boarding school, Eisenstadt, 1892-94)
    High School: (boarding school, Mährisch-Weisskirchen, 1894-97)
    University: PhD, University of Berlin (1908)

    Stroke 1936

Author of books:
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless (1906, novel)
Vereinigungen (1911)
Die Schwärmer (1921)
Drei Frauen (1924, short stories)
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930–43, novel, 3 vols., unfinished)
Nachlass zu Lebzeiten (1936)
Über die Dummheit (1937)

Wrote plays:
Die Schwärmer (1920)
Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer (1924)

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