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Aug 17, 1898 Galicia, Ukraine Died on 09 Jul 1959 (aged 60)
Austrian writer
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About Joseph Kalmer
- Joseph Kalmer (August 17, 1898, Nehrybka, today Poland - July 9, 1959, Vienna) was an Austrian writer, poet and translator. Kalmer attended high school in Czernowitz and gymnasium in Vienna.
- He started to write during his studies, and later became a journalist.
- In 1938, after the Anschluss, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and a year later to England where he set up a literary agency. In 1935, together with Ludwig Huyn, Kalmer wrote a book Abessinien (Abyssinia or Ethiopia) about travel to that country.
- The book is a vivid and detailed description of the history, people and customs of this ancient country getting dragged into the modern age under threat of war with Italy.
- The book was translated into several languages (e.g.
- into Czech, 1935).
