Editing Franz Kafka (section)

==Death==

[[File:Grave of Kafka.JPG|thumb|upright|Franz Kafka's grave in Prague-Žižkov designed by Leopold Ehrmann|alt=A tapering six-sided stone structure lists the names of three deceased persons: Franz, Hermann, and Julie Kafka. Each name has a passage in Hebrew below it.]]

Kafka's [[Larynx|laryngeal]] [[tuberculosis]] worsened and in March 1924 he returned from Berlin to Prague,{{sfn|Stach|2005|p=1}} where members of his family, principally his sister Ottla, as well as Dora Diamant, took care of him. He went to Hugo Hoffmann's sanatorium in [[Kierling]] just outside [[Vienna]] for treatment on 10 April,{{sfn|Brod|1966|p=389}} and died there on 3 June 1924. The cause of death seemed to be starvation: the condition of Kafka's throat made eating too painful for him, and since [[parenteral nutrition]] had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him.{{sfn|Believer|2006}}{{sfn|Brod|1960|pp=209–211}} Kafka was editing "[[A Hunger Artist]]" on his deathbed, a story whose composition he had begun before his throat closed to the point that he could not take any nourishment.{{sfn|Brod|1960|p=211}} His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, in the [[New Jewish Cemetery, Prague|New Jewish Cemetery]] in [[Žižkov|Prague-Žižkov]].{{sfn|European Graduate School|2012}} His obituary appeared in the ''[[Prager Presse]]'' and the ''[[Berliner Tageblatt]]''.{{sfn|Ackermann|1950|p=106}} Kafka was virtually unknown during his own lifetime, but he did not consider fame important. He rose to fame rapidly after his death,{{sfn|Brod|1960|p=214}} particularly after World War II. The Kafka tombstone was designed by architect [[Leopold Ehrmann]].<ref>F. Kafka, ''New Jewish Cemetery'', Prague: Marsyas 1991, p. 56</ref>
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