John Bertram Askew
John Bertram Askew (16 October 1869 – 5 February 1929) was a British writer and translator, who translated some of the work of Karl Kautsky from German to English.
Life
Askew was born in
Lenin mentions him as a London associate.[3]
Askew separated from his first wife, and in June 1911 a German court ruled that the marriage was dissolved. On 24 April 1912, he married his second wife, Anna Wengels,[4] from Berlin.[5]
Askew died in Moscow.[3] After his death, the legitimacy of his second marriage was debated as a question of the conflict of laws in British courts.[5]
Works
Translations
- The Social Revolution and, On the Morrow of the Social Revolution by Karl Kautsky. London: Twentieth Century Press, 1903.
- Ethics and the materialist conception of history by Karl Kautsky. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co.
Other
- Pros and cons: A newspaper reader's and debater's guide to the leading controversies of the day (political, social, religions, etc.), London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, 1896.
- Der britische Imperialismus, Stuttgart: Dietz, 1914
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