Gerhart Hauptmann, dean of German writers, headed a delegation of sixty German writers who participated in a most impressive funeral service for Samuel Fischer founder and owner of Verlag Fischer, famous German publishing house, who died on Monday.
Herr Fischer was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Weisensee, a suburb of Berlin.
Oscar Loerke and Manfred Hausmann, German writers, eulogized the dead publisher for his services to German literature.
Herr Fischer, who was in the publishing business in Berlin since 1890, was responsible for introducing Thomas Mann, Hauptmann, Bernhard Kellermann and other noted writers to German readers.
His firm also published the works of famous Russian, French, English and Scandinavian writers.
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