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Jünger

American  
[yoong-er, yyng-uhr] / ˈjʊŋ ər, ˈjüŋ ər /

noun

  1. Ernst 1895–98, German author.


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It happened at a picnic in the Harz Mountains with Ernst Jünger, who “leaned over to pick up a sauerkraut and sausage roll, and his lederhosen split with a tremendous crack.”

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2023

Ms. Meloni said that instead a more influential writer at the time was the more mainstream Ernst Jünger, a German former soldier, who sought to make sense of war but also glorified combat.

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2022

In more than one essay, the German author Ernst Jünger, a veteran of both world wars, likens throwing hand grenades to ballet.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2022

Critics have likened Finis Germania to the writings of deeply reactionary German “cultural declinists” of the early 20th century, such as Oswald Spengler or Ernst Jünger.

From The Guardian Jul. 28, 2017

Photograph: Thomas Goisque Jünger was one of the authors the French writer Sylvain Tesson took on his own retreat into the forest, spending six months in a one-room cabin in the frozen Siberian wilderness.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2013

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