Gustav Eckstein
Gustav Eckstein (born February 19, 1875 in Vienna , † July 27, 1916 in Zurich ) was an Austrian journalist, social democrat and theorist of Austromarxism .
Live and act
Gustav Eckstein comes from an upper-class, Jewish-liberal family. His father Albert was a chemist, inventor and founder of a parchment factory in Perchtoldsdorf . His mother's name was Amalie, née Wehle. Gustav had six sisters and three brothers, but two of them died as children. The remaining brother was called Friedrich Eckstein and was a universal scholar. Among his sisters were the women's rights activist Emma Eckstein , one of Sigmund Freud's first patients , and Therese Schlesinger , social democrat and writer. The family usually spent the summer months as a summer retreat at the Attersee .
Gustav Eckstein worked, among other things, as a journalist for Die Neue Zeit . From 1897 he was active as a social democrat . He was one of the masterminds of Austromarxism.
Works
- The development of Japanese family law . (= Supplementary booklets for Neue Zeit No. 2 from April 17, 1908) [digitized version]
- Guide to Studying the History of Socialism. From Thomas More to the dissolution of the International . Paul Singer Publishing House, Berlin 1910.
- Gustav Eckstein: Rosa Luxemburg: "The accumulation of capital" . In: Forward . No. 40 , February 16, 1913.
- Gustav Eckstein: Superfluous excitement . In: Forward . No. 46 , February 23, 1913.
- Karl Marx 's works . In: Robert Danneberg : Karl Marx. The man and his work . Publisher of the Association of Young Workers (Anton Jenschik), Vienna 1913, pp. 56–59.
- The tactics of Marxism . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1914.
- German social democracy during the world war . Book printing cooperative of the Swiss Grütlivereins, Zurich 1917.
- The Marxism in practice , Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1918. Digitized MDZ Reader
- What is socialism? Conversations to introduce the basic concepts of scientific socialism . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1931. Digitized MDZ Reader
literature
- Karl Kautsky : Gustav Eckstein † , In: The new time. 34.1915-1916, Volume 2 (1916), Issue 18, pp. 529-530. Digitized
- Eckstein Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 214 f. (Direct links on p. 214 , p. 215 ).
- Götz Langkau: Marx Complete Edition - Urgent Party Interest or Decorative Purpose? A Viennese edition plan . In: MEGA studies 1994/1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994, pp. 5-31. Letters from Eckstein to Kautsky
- Eckstein, Gustav. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 64-66.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Eckstein in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.univie.ac.at - biography of Therese Schlesinger , University of Vienna (accessed December 5, 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckstein, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist, social democrat and Austromarxist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1916 |
| Place of death | Zurich |