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course of Bruno's childhood. This was compounded by the death of Bruno's father in 1874 from tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-seven. This tragedy was shortly followed by the death of the eldest son, Reinhold Otto, of consumption aged just nineteen. Bruno, now the eldest child, began taking on odd jobs along with his mother in order to provide for his younger sisters. Ernestine remarried a few years later in 1877 to Gustav Robert Süss, a young Protestant locksmith, just nine years older than Bruno in order to provide a steady breadwinner for

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