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Gustav Meyrink
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “austrian author”. Today it says “pseudonym of gustav meyer”.
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Gustav Meyrink ( January 19 1868 - December 4 1932 ) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist .1 He was born in Vienna , Austria-Hungary (now Austria ) and died in Starnberg , Bavaria , Germany .2
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austrian author
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pseudonym of gustav meyer
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