Isidor Singer (journalist)

Isidor Singer (born January 16, 1857 in Budapest , † December 8, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist, statistician and newspaper editor.

Life

Singer came from a wealthy Jewish textile merchant family who had lived in Vienna since 1861. After studying law , mathematics and natural sciences in Vienna and Graz , he was awarded a doctorate in Vienna in 1881. iur. PhD. In 1885 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna and became a private lecturer in statistics, and since 1892 associate professor of statistics. In the 1880s, Singer critically examined the emergence of modern anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria. In 1885 he published the results of an intellectual survey in which 54 prominent Europeans from literature, art, culture and science presented their views on anti-Semitism and the "Jewish question". In 1894, Singer founded the left-liberal weekly Die Zeit together with Hermann Bahr and Heinrich Kanner . In 1902 he and Kanner founded a daily newspaper with the same name.

During the First World War the newspaper had to be sold for economic reasons. Singer went to Switzerland and lived in Vienna again as a freelance writer since 1920. He also worked as a translator and translated Upton Sinclair .

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the social conditions in north-eastern Bohemia. A contribution to the method of social statistical investigations. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885.
• The American railways and their importance to the world economy , 1909.
• The American steel industry and World War I , 1917.

literature

• Singer, Isidore. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
• Peter Paul Sint:  Singer, Isidor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 296.
• Lucie Kostrbová, Kurt Ifkovits, Vratislav Doubek: The Viennese weekly Die Zeit (1894–1904) as a mediator between Czech and Viennese modernism. Masarykův ústav a Archive AV ČR et al., Prague et al. 2011, ISBN 978-80-86495-72-9 (on the biography: pp. 423-425).
• Thomas Grafe, The Loss of Hegemony of Liberalism. The "Jewish question" as reflected in the intellectual surveys 1885–1912 , in: Yearbook for Antisemitism Research 25 (2016), pp. 73–100.

Web links

• Literature by and about Isidor Singer in the catalog of the German National Library