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    Title

  • Johannes Urzidil : outdoors

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 19 x 24 cm

  • Date

    1966

  • Place of Publication

    Princeton (N.J.)

  • Depicted

    Urzidil, Johannes, 1896-1970

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Johannes and Gertrude Urzidil Collection, AR 7110

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The German writer, historian, and journalist Johannes Urzidil was born and educated in Prague, Bohemia. After serving briefly in World War I in 1916, he worked as a translator at the German embassy in Prague and as a correspondent for the Prague Tagblatt (daily newspaper). He was dismissed from his position as press officer of the German embassy in 1933, and together with his wife Gertrude Thieberger (1898-1977) they escaped to England via Italy and then moved to the United States in 1941. Johannes Urzidil died in Rome in 1970.

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Johannes Urzidil : outdoors, Leo Baeck Institute, F 11225.