Henri Murger

Henri Murg ( born March 27, 1822 in Paris, † January 28, 1861 ibid ) was a French writer.

Life

Spent his youth Henri Murger under the buveurs d' eau ( " water drinkers " ), a group of bohemians in Paris's Latin Quarter. In his most famous work Les scènes de la vie de bohème diving, often barely disguised his real friends on, for example, Charles Barbara. This book - partly in German under the title Gypsy life is known about the translation of Walter Heichen - formed 1896, the template for the opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini and, a year later, for the same opera by Ruggiero Leoncavallo.

Murg died at the age of only 38 years in the former Maison Dubois, today Hôpital Fernand- Widal.

Works

• Scènes de la vie de bohème ( 1847-49 ) Boheme. Scenes of Parisian life. Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-884-1 (Translation by Ilse Linden, Berlin 1923); Motifs made ​​into a film The Life of Bohème