James Vincent Murphy

James Vincent Murphy ( * July 7, 1880 in Innishannon in Cork, Ireland, † July 5, 1946 in Bishop's Stortford, England) was an Irish translator, writer and journalist, who published in 1939 one of the first complete translations of Mein Kampf.

Life

Murphy attended the St. Patrick 's College, Maynooth and was ordained at St. Patrick 's College Chapel in 1905 as a priest, turned, however, from the clerical service again.

Before the Second World War, he lived for some time in Italy and Germany.

Works

• Adolf Hitler: the drama of his career, in 1934
• Who sent Rudolf Hess? , 1941

Translations

• Max Planck, Where is science going?, 1932 ( foreword by Albert Einstein)
• Emil Ludwig, Leaders of Europe, 1934
• Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, ( biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford )
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1939