Artur Fürst
Artur Fürst ( born February 23, 1880 † May 13, 1926 ) was a German writer of Jewish origin.
Life
Artur prince came from the West Prussian province and moved to Berlin in 1900 to study at the Technical University Berlin (later Technical University of Berlin) mechanical and electrical engineering. It dealt mainly with technical popular themes of his time, particularly for telecommunications, railways and electricity in its various applications.
Furst books enjoyed in the 1910s and 1920s extraordinary popularity. He became famous among other things, by the co-authored with Alexander Moszkowski book of the 1000 miracle in which Albert Einstein was recognized as the " Galileo of the 20th century". In addition, Prince wrote biographies of the AEG founder Emil Rathenau and Werner von Siemens.
His most extensive and best-known work is The Empire of the art in four volumes. The first volume, telegraphy and telephony, was published in 1923 by Ullstein. 1924 was followed by traffic in the country, in 1925, the traffic on the water and in the air " and 1927, posthumously, combustion engines and electric power.
Artur prince died in 1926 at the age of only 47 years, and therefore could not complete even the fourth volume. His friend Hans Dominik added the missing chapter.
From 1933 Fürst's literary work by the Nazis because of Jewish background of the author is prohibited and therefore slid largely in the post-war period into oblivion. However, some publishers published recently reprints of some of his works. His son Peter Prince succeeded in 1934 to escape over the Dominican Republic in the United States, where he became known as a journalist and author.
Works
- The wonders around us. New insights into the nature and technology, 1911
- The poetry of the railway in 1912
- The world on rails, publisher Albert Langen, 6 to 8 thousand, Munich 1918
- In the spell of Nauen. The conquest of the earth by means of wireless telegraphy, 1922
- The empire of the art, 4 volumes, 1924
- The realm of power, 1926