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Franz Kafka was born on 3 July 1883 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in an old apartment near the boundary of the Jewish ghetto. His father, Hermann Kafka, rose from a poor Jewish family to become a merchant, while his mother, Julie Kafka, came from a wealthy German-speaking Jewish family. Both parents were engaged in commerce. Of the six children in the family, Kafka was the eldest; two of his brothers, George and Heinrich, died in childhood, and his three sisters, Elli, Val