Leonard Arthur Magnus
Leonard Arthur Magnus, LL.B. (December 12, 1879 – September 11, 1924) was a British scholar and translator with interests in Russian literature, as well as author of a novel of utopian fiction.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160405153702/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/magnus_leonard_a Magnus, Leonard A], The Encyclopedia of Science FictionThe Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record. Vol. 121, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ciE3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA349&dq=%22Leonard+Arthur+magnus%22 p.349], citing The Times, September 15, 1924
Biography
Leonard A. Magnus was son of Sir Philip Magnus, Bt. and Lady Magnus. He was the editor of Respublica for the Early English Text Society, a translator from Russian, and an author of his own works.
In 1923–1924 he was traveling in the interior of Russia, facilitated by the Commissar of Education of Russia Lunacharsky, pursuing his studies in the folklore of Russia. He was "attacked by a malignant germ" and failed to get home, dying in Russia, in a hursing-home in Moscow.The Periodical, Vol. 9, October 1924, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4JnfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA322 p. 322]
Works
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- A Japanese Utopia (1905)
- : A Japanese protagonist finds a utopian lost world north of Japan.
- A Concise Grammar of the Russian Language (1916) [https://archive.org/details/concisegrammarof00magnrich, archive.org
- Roumania's Cause & Ideals (1917)[https://archive.org/details/roumaniascauseid00magniala, archive.org
- Pros and Cons of the Great War: A Record of Foreign Opinion, with a Register of Fact (1917)[https://books.google.com/books?id=itfRAAAAMAAJ ''Pros and Cons of the Great War]
- : "a collection of brief extracts and quotations from various foreign writings and speeches, principally German; as references to sources are given the compilation can be made to serve some of the uses of a bibliography."The Library Journal, Vol. 43, January 1918[https://books.google.com/books?id=gfsOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA18&dq=%22Pros+and+Cons+of+the+Great+War%22 p. 19]
- The Heroic Ballads of Russia (1921) [https://archive.org/details/heroicballadsofr00magniala, archive.org
- Russian Folk-Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
- :translation, with introduction
- The Tale of the Armament of Igor (1915)
- :translation, editing, with introduction, notes, and glossary[https://archive.org/details/taleofarmamento00magn, archive.org
- Three plays by Anatoly Lunacharsky
- :Translation with collaboration with K. Walter for Broadway Translations
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Category:Russian studies scholars
Category:Jewish British writers