Emma Adler

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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{{cite book|last1=Feiereisen|first1=Florence|last2=Hill|first2=Alexandra Merley|title=Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-T22vJHaIKIC&pg=PP13|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-975939-2|pages=13–}} journalist and writer.

Biography

She is known for works of fiction, historical novels, translations, as well as her correspondence with Karl Kautsky.{{cite book|last=Blum|first=Mark E.|title=The Austro-Marxists 1890—1918: A Psychobiographical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oakgBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA234|date=13 January 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-6216-4|pages=234–}} 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".{{cite book|last1=Eigler|first1=Friederike Ursula|last2=Kord|first2=Susanne|title=The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8taL9KiA0ykC&pg=PA207|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29313-9|pages=207–}} Adler was the publisher of the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung.{{cite book|last=Jacobs|first=Jack|title=On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" After Marx|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XffJLtagfF4C&pg=PA211|date=1 January 1992|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-4213-6|pages=211, 214–}}

Adler was born in Debrecen, Austrian Empire 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,{{cite book|last=Loewenberg|first=Peter|title=Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTn61f9M-EYC&pg=PA138|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-2139-1|pages=138, 141–}} and died in Zürich, 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, 1915