René Fülöp-Miller

René Fülöp Miller (actually Philip René Maria Müller; born March 17, 1891 in Caransebes, Austria - Hungary, now Romania, † May 7, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire ) was an American writer and sociologist Austro- Hungarian origin.

Life

At age 17, came Fülöp Miller in 1908 at the University of Vienna, to study chemistry and pharmacy. In his first literary attempts, he got to know Stefan Zweig, who promoted him to all our strength, and made ​​contact with Gina Kaus. His studies took Fülöp Miller about the universities of Berlin and Paris to Lausanne, where he finished his studies. Then he wrote only in German language and, on a long study tour of Russia, the United States and Asia Minor. The success of being able to publish his reports about it in various feature articles, made ​​him less to seek his living as a scientist than as a journalist. He was the rapporteur of the peace conferences in Geneva in 1922 and Lugano in 1924, traveled to Hollywood in 1930 and then lived in various places in Europe.

In 1939 Fülöp Miller of Norway to the United States, lived in Croton-on- Hudson ( Westchester County) and in 1943 was a U.S. citizen. Between 1950 and 1954 he taught at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire Russian culture and sociology. In 1954 he moved to the same position at Hunter College in New York City and returned in the fall of 1962 as a lecturer back to the Dartmouth College back. When his last major publication is considered to be novel The silver bacchanal of 1960.

During his exile at the time of Nazi rule, he also worked with the pseudonyms of Philipp Jakob Müller and Rene Miller.

Quotes

" The happy ending that seems alone to meet the mental hygiene America, is therefore to this day sacrosanct, it is in humility of American religion of optimism and contributes to the marvelous work of the general Massenbeglückung. "

Works

  • Dostoevsky at roulette. Piper, Munich 1925 ( together with Friedrich Eckstein )
  • Power and Secret of the Jesuits. A cultural and intellectual history., 1926. Reprint Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-925037-79-9. ( first 1929)
  • Spirit and face of Bolshevism. Presentation and critique of cultural life in Soviet Russia, Amalthea -Verl. Zurich 1926. Entitled fantasy and everyday life in Soviet Russia. An eyewitness report. Elephant -Press -Verlag, Berlin 1978
  • The Holy Devil. Rasputin and the women. Grethlein & Co., Leipzig, 1927. St. devil. The truth about Rasputin '. LKG edition, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-376-05011-2.
  • Lenin and Gandhi. Amalthea -Verlag, Leipzig, 1927.
  • The Russian theater. His character and his history with special emphasis on the revolutionary period. Amalthea -Verlag, Leipzig 1928 (along with Joseph Gregor )
  • Under three tsars. The memoirs of Elisabeth Hofmarschallin Narischkin - Kurakin. Amalthea -Verlag, Leipzig 1930.
  • The fantasy machine. A saga of greed. Zsolnay, Vienna 1931.
  • The American theater and cinema. Two cultural-historical treatises. Amalthea -Verlag, Leipzig, 1931 ( with Joseph Gregor )
  • Leaders, dreamers and rebels. The great dreams of mankind. Buckman, Munich 1934.
  • Leo XIII. and our time. Power of the Church, the powers of the world. Publisher Rascher, Leipzig 1935
  • Caterwauling. Roman Vienna 1936. Edition in Weidle, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-931135-35-7.
  • Cultural history of medicine. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1937 fight against pain and death. Cultural history of medicine. South-East -Verlag, Berlin 1938
  • Moved the world. Anthony, Augustine, Francis, Ignatius, Theresa. Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1952
  • Endre. Novella trilogy. Rabenstein, Salzburg 1952.
  • Saint Francis, the saint of love. A message of comfort and confidence. Publishing the Golden Fleece, Frankfurt / M. 1955

Editorship

  • Anna Dostoevskaja: memories. The life of Dostoevsky in the records of his wife. With Friedrich Eckstein. Piper, Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-492-02569-2 (Munich: Piper 1925).
  • Tolstoy's flight and death, described by his daughter Alexandra. The letters and diaries of Leo Tolstoy, his wife, his doctor and his friends. With Alexandra Tolstoy. The Orig Russian documents translated by Vera Mitrofanoff Demelič, Zurich: Diogenes 2008 ISBN 3-257-23670-0.
  • Leonid Grossman: The Confession of a Jew in letters to Dostoevsky, from Russian. Munich: Piper, 1927
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