Swiss People of Austrian Descent - Austrian Expatriates in Switzerland, Wolfgang Pauli, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maximilian Schell, Rudolf Hilferding (Paperback)

Chapters: Austrian Expatriates in Switzerland, Wolfgang Pauli, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maximilian Schell, Rudolf Hilferding, Johannes Mario Simmel, Bertha Diener, Felix Salten, Gottfried Von Einem, Julius Pokorny, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Lilly Steinschneider, Tilla Durieux, Leopold Lindtberg, Ernst Marischka, Alfred Polgar, August Breisky, Walter Breisky, Regina Ullmann, Ernst Sigismund Fischer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alfred Polgar (name at birth: Alfred Polak, pseudonyms: Archibald Douglas, L. A. Terne; born 17 October 1873, Leopoldstadt - 24 April 1955, Zurich ) was an Austrian -born journalist, one of the renowned wits of the Vienna coffeehouses . He left Austria in 1938, and later worked in Hollywood . He was known as a drama critic, in Berlin 1925 to 1933, and an essayist. He died in Zurich. Notes Websites (URLs online) Polgar and Polak A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at August BreiskyProfessor August Breisky (March 25, 1832, Klattau (Klatovy ), Bohemia (now Czech Republic ) May 25, 1889)He studied medicine in Prague. M.D. degree in 1855. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to the Surgical School of Salzburg in 1866. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical Faculty of Berne (1867-1874). Ordinary professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in Prague (1874-1886). His first work there was to introduce the strict practice of antiseptic principles. From October 1886 professor of the second obstetrical clinic at the Vienna General Hospital References (URLs online) BreiskyA hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bertha Eckstein in 1902Bertha Eckstein-Diener, also known by her American pseudonym as Helen Diner (born March 18, 1874, Vienna - died February 20, 1948, Geneva ) was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian and ..