Franz Kafka
1883–1924 · Person
Prague insurance clerk whose nightmares of guilt and bureaucracy — The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle — became the twentieth century's word for itself: Kafkaesque.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, People, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, The Habsburg Dynasty
Around 1883
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)