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Translates into "the distant tomb" Illustration of 5 graves and some mountains in the background. Blank postcard.

Rudolph Presber was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on July 4, 1868. He earned a doctorate at Heidelberg and was long connected with the newspaper world and was editor of the Frankfurte Generalanzeiger and the Berlin Post. Presber was the author of a large number of short stories, sketches, novels, and several volumes of verse. Perhaps his best-known work was Gefchichten um Bubchen, a humorous collection of short stories, intended for non-German students of the language. Presber's son, A.A.W. Presber emigrated to Canada and worked for the Canada Grain Council, and produced a research paper entitled An enquiry into the origins, cultivation and utilization of the small faba bean (horsebean) in Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and England. Rudolph Presber's grandson Julian Presber graduated form the University of Manitoba in 1980 with a B.COMM. in 1980 and now resides in the Duchy of Luxembourg.