Gabriel Brühl
Limburg criminal
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| Intro | Limburg criminal | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| was | Criminal | |
| Work field | Crime | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1691, Landgraaf, Limburg, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands | |
| Death | 10 September 1743 (aged 52 years) |
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Biography
Gabriel Brühl (died 1743) was a well-known robber in the then Duchy of Limburg, whose criminal career started in the 1720s and ended with his being hanged in 1743.
Brühl was a remote ancestor of the Belgian detective writer Georges Simenon, who used "Brühl" as one of his many pen names.