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First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she ...
Praise for the first edition of this book: This translation is something of an event. For the first time, it makes Zur Mühlen’s text available to English-speaking readers in a reliable version. —David Midgley, University of Cambridge [This book] represents exceptional value, both as an enjoyable read and as an introduction to an attractive author who amply deserves rediscovery. —Ritchie Robertson, Journal of European Studies, 42(1): 106-07. Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles ...
Die Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) liegt jetzt in einer vollständigen Neuausgabe vor und gibt Auskunft über rund 63.000 Personen, die durch ihren Lebensweg, ihr Wirken, ihre Leistungen, ihre Taten und Untaten bis heute bemerkenswert erscheinen und zur kulturellen Erinnerung der Deutschen gehören. Dazu zählen Personen aus allen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens. In die bis ins frühe Mittelalter zurückreichende Enzyklopädie sind auch Österreicher und deutschsprachige Schweizer sowie Ausländer aufgenommen, deren Lebensweg sie in deutsche Länder geführt hat und deren Wirken sich in ihnen entfaltet hat. Die Artikel der ersten Ausgabe inklusive der Nachträge wurden grundle...