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Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.