Emma Adler
Emma Adler was an Austrian fin de siècle journalist and writer.Biography Overview
She is known for works of fiction, historical novels, translations, as well as her correspondence with Karl Kautsky. She was a socialist who, with other Jewish 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, Hungary 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, Marie, Karl. 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, 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, 1915
