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Emma Adler (née, Braun; pen names, Marion Lorm and Helene Erdmann; 20 May 1858 – 23 February 1935) was an Austrian ''
Emma Adler (née, Braun; pen names, Marion Lorm and Helene Erdmann; 20 May 1858 – 23 February 1935) was an Austrian ''fin de siècle
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'' journalist and writer.
Biography Overview
She is known for works of fiction,historical novels
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ...
, translations, as well as her correspondence with Karl Kautsky
Karl Johann Kautsky (; ; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels i ...
. She was a socialist who, with other Jewish
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writers of the time, such as Hedwig Dohm
Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (née Schlesinger, later Schleh; 20 September 1831 – 1 June 1919) was a German feminist and author.
Family
She was born in the Prussian capital Berlin to assimilated Jewish parents, and her father was baptized. ...
, Bertha Pappenheim, and Hedwig Lachmann
Hedwig Lachmann (29 August 1865 – 21 February 1918) was a German author, translator and poet.
Life and work
Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania in 1865, to a Jewish family, and was the daughter of a cantor, Isaak Lachmann. She spent her ch ...
, "combined political activity with artistic creativity". Adler was the publisher of the ''Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung''.
Adler was born in Debrecen
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, Hungary
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in 1858. She was the sister of Heinrich Braun
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1 January 1862 – 26 April 1934) was a German surgeon remembered for his work in the field of anaesthesiology. He was a native of Rawitsch, Province of Posen (today called Rawicz, Poland).
Braun attended the K ...
; and the wife of Victor Adler, a physician and politician who founded the Social Democratic Party of Austria in Austria. They married in 1878, and had three children, Friedrich (born 1878), Marie (born 1881), Karl (born 1885). She dealt with severe depressive episodes during periods of her life, and died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1935.
Selected works
* ''Goethe und Frau v. Stein'', 18871897. * Marion Lorm (Pseudonym), translation: Choderlos de Laclos: ''Gefährliche Liebschaften'', 1899 *''Die berühmten Frauen der französischen Revolution 1789–1795'', 1906 *''Erinnerungen 1887–1892–1912'', in: ''Gedenkbuch: 20 Jahre Österreichische Arbeiterinnenbewegung'', 1912 * ''Feierabend. Ein Buch für die Jugend'', 1902 * ''Neues Buch der Jugend'', 1912 * ''Kochschule'', 1915See also
*Lists of writers
The following are lists of writers:
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References
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