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Emma Adler (née, Braun; pen names, Marion Lorm and Helene Erdmann; 20 May 1858 – 23 February 1935) was an Austrian '' fin de siècle'' journalist and writer.
Emma Adler (née, Braun; pen names, Marion Lorm and Helene Erdmann; 20 May 1858 – 23 February 1935) was an Austrian '' fin de siècle'' journalist and writer.
Biography
She is known for works of fiction,historical novels
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, translations, as well as her correspondence with Karl Kautsky. She was a socialist who, with other Jewish
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writers of the time, such as Hedwig Dohm, Bertha Pappenheim, and Hedwig Lachmann, "combined political activity with artistic creativity". Adler was the publisher of the ''Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung''.
Adler was born in Debrecen
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, Austrian Empire
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in 1858. She was the sister of Heinrich Braun; 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 Zürich
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, 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:
Alphabetical indices
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adler, Emma 1858 births 1935 deaths People from Debrecen 19th-century Austrian journalists Austrian women writers 19th-century Austrian Jews Austrian historical novelists Austrian translators 20th-century letter writers Women letter writers Women historical novelists 20th-century Austrian journalists 19th-century letter writers 19th-century Austrian women journalists 20th-century Austrian women journalists Writers from Austria-Hungary