BROD, MAX (1884- ), German writer, was born in Prague on May 27, 1884 of Jewish parents. He received his edu cation in Prague, and afterwards worked there, first as a Govern ment official, and later on the staff of the Prager Tagblatt. Brod's work is strongly steeped in that peculiar compound of the Jewish, Czech and German national spirits which makes the German literature of Prague a thing apart-fantastic, mystic, with flashes of violent realism, strongly erotic, intellectually acute and abnor mally sensitive to atmosphere. Brod's own work is further charac terized by exceptional narrative skill and limpidity of style. His chief works are: Schloss Nornepygge (1908), Jiidinnen (19o9), Weiberwirtschaft (1913), Tycho Brakes Weg zu Gott (1916; English tr. Tycho Brahe's Redemption, 1928), Reubeni (1925), Die Frau, each der man sick seent (1927).