Max Rudolf Kaufmann
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Max Rudolf Kaufmann | |
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Born | Basel, Switzerland | 29 April 1886
Died | 1963 Bonn, Germany | (aged 76)
Nationality | Swiss |
Education | Ph.D. Philology |
Alma mater | University of Bern, Switzerland |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Orientalist |
Employer(s) | Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Osmanischer Lloyd, Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hamburger Fremdenblatt, Basel University Library, Inter Nationes |
Known for | various translated books and original articles about Turkey and the Middle East |
Max Rudolf Kaufmann (29 April 1886 in Basel, Switzerland – 1963 in Bonn, Germany), was a Swiss author, translator from Turkish, and journalist, who worked and published in Switzerland, Turkey, the United States and Germany.
Life
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Kaufmann was born on 29 April 1886 in Basel and studied philology in Bern, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1907.
After some years as journalist in Paris, he moved to
After German intelligence got hold of a letter where he openly expressed these critical views right in the middle of
In 1925 Kaufmann moved to the United States, where he became a correspondent of Hamburger Fremdenblatt, at that time Germany's leading business and commerce newspaper, and also served as editor of a German-language daily newspaper in Newark, New Jersey, the New Jersey Freie Zeitung. After the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933, Kaufmann discontinued his work for German media and moved back to his native Switzerland, where he worked for different local papers and also as a librarian at the University Library in Basel.
In 1952, the
Kaufmann died in 1963 in Bonn.