Author: John Christian Freund
Author: John Christian Freund (1848–1924)
Biography: John Christian Freund was born on 22 November 1848 in London, the son of physician Jonas Charles Hermann Freund and his wife Amelia Louisa (née Rudiger). He attended Exeter College, Oxford where he studied music but did not finish his degree. While still an undergraduate, he founded and edited the magazine The Dark Blue, wrote and produced a play The Undergraduate in London, and published a work of fiction By the Roadside (1870). In 1871, he fled to America after the bankruptcy of his magazine. In the United States, he worked for several trade periodicals before editing and publishing more magazines on his own account. In addition, he a least one more play as well as acting in several more. His personal life proved somewhat complicated. In 1872, he married Esther Barton Dewhurst in London and a daughter was born soon after. There is no record of divorce. In 1887, he married Florence Smith in Boston but the marriage ended in divorce in 1890. He then married Anna C. Hughes in 1890. Based on this chronology, he may have been a double bigamist. He died on 3 June 1924 in Mount Vernon, New York.
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References: British Census (1891); Los Angeles Times (4 June 1924); U.S. Census (1900)
Fiction Titles:
- By the Roadside. 1 vol. Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1870.