Gustav Eim

Gustav Eim (1882)

Gustav Eim (born October 7, 1849 in Šťáhlavy near Rokycany , † February 7, 1897 in Florence ) was a Bohemian - Czech journalist and politician .

Life

In 1874 he was editor of the National Sheets ( Národní listy ) and wrote in 1879 as a correspondent in Vienna and parliamentary observers on the passive Czech national policy. In 1891 he was elected to parliament himself, where his sharp pen and fiery parliamentary speeches became legendary. Together with Josef Kaizl and Karel Kramář , he embodied the moderate political wing of the Young Czech Party in the 1990s , which advocated further cooperation with the Austrian monarchy .

person

J. Kaizl characterized Eim as follows: “The most skilful, farsighted, human weaknesses and thought-calculating, practical Czech politician. The most sophisticated intriguer on a grand scale, personally inaccessible and honest ”.

Works

He published a collection of his published articles from 1848 to 1879 in the book About Us - For Us (O nás - pro nás).

literature

• Ernst Falzeder, Angela Graf-Nold: Gustav Eim (1849–1897). A patient from Freud's early practice. With two unpublished letters from Freud. In: Lucifer-Amor. Journal of the History of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 23 (2010), No. 45, ISSN  0933-3347 , pp. 8-15.
• Michal Navrátil: Gustav Eim . Edition Parliament, Prague 1923.
• Otto Urban : The Czech Community. 1848 to 1918 (“Česká společnost 1848–1918”, 1982). Böhlau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-05485-7 .