Edmund Blum (9 September 1874 in Steinamanger/
Szombathely
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Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...
Hungary
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– 14 April 1938 in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
) was an Austrian author and dentist.
Life
Edmund Blum was born in 1874, the son of Alexander Blum and Julia Blum née Lazarus. He studied in Vienna, where 29. April 1898 he received a doctorate degree in medicine. He was also a writer and publisher.
Career
Blum wrote over 25 books and also used the pseudonym E. B. Junkh. In 1920 he founded his own publishing house, called E.B. Seps, in Vienna. His first book was ''„Warum lassen sich die Juden nicht taufen?!“'' published by 0. Th. Scholl. Later, in 1928, he founded a second publishing house, „Bergis Verlag Wien,“ which published other authors including Max Epstein, Hermann W. Anders, Hellmut Schlien, Fritz v. Unruh, and Berthold Sprung. Edmund Blum died 14. April 1938 in Vienna.
Trivia
On 16 June fans of Irish writer
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
across the globe celebrate
Bloomsday
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, and since 1994 in the Hungarian town
Szombathely
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Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...
, the birthplace of
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Paula Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's ...
's fictional father Rudolf Virag (Virag in German is Blume). A Joyce statue stands in front of the house at 40 Fö Square where Martin Blum, grandfather of Edmund Blum, lived in the second half of the 19th century.
Publications
* Warum lassen sich die Juden nicht taufen?! (1913)
* Das Brauthemd (1919)
* Die Gefallene (1920)
* Die Halbjuden (1920)
* Junggesellennot, sexual-psychologischer Roman (1920)
* Die Lüsterne (1922)
* Die Gelegenheitsmacherin (1922)
* Magdas Fehltritt (1923)
* Die Hochzeitsnacht (1923)
* Die Verführte (1923)
* Judenhaß (1923)
* Ohne Wollust (1923)
* Sommerbräutigam
* Die Sumpfblume und andere Wiener Novellen (1923)
* Lebt Gott noch? Krise der Weltanschauung (1928)
* Die Damen Bolzani (1932)
* Des Selbstmörders Schwester (1932)
* Das Eheexperiment (1920)
* Sein Venusdienst (1923)
* Mädis Irrwege (1925)
* Die Verführte (1923)
* Der Hund und die Liebe (1923)
* Treu bis Neapel (1923)
* Die Schande (1923)
* Schach der Liebe (1923)
See also
*
List of Austrian writers
External links
verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.combloomsday hungary
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1874 births
1938 deaths
20th-century Austrian novelists
Jewish Austrian writers
Austrian male novelists
20th-century Austrian male writers
Writers from Austria-Hungary