Max Jungk was born on 27 May 1872 in Miskowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Miskovice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for A Throw of Dice (1929), Schlagende Wetter (1923) and Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918). He died in July 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Prague, Czech Republic].