Gabriel Brühl | |
Birth Date: | c. 1691 |
Birth Place: | Broekhuizen, Habsburg Netherlands |
Death Place: | Ubach over Worms, Habsburg Netherlands |
Conviction Penalty: | 1743: Death by hanging |
Conviction Status: | Executed |
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.[1]
Brühl was a remote ancestor of the Belgian detective writer Georges Simenon, who used "Brühl" as one of his many pen names.