Joseph Kalmer

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Joseph Kalmer (August 17, 1898, Nehrybce (Nahrybka, 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).

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 10587492 LCCN: n85239749 ISNI: 0000 0001 1742 6663 GND: 116034998

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Name	Kalmer, Joseph
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Short description	Austrian writer
Date of birth	1898
Place of birth
Date of death	1959
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