Gustav Spiller

Gustav Spiller (1864 - February 1940) was a Hungarian-born ethical and sociological writer who was active in Ethical Societies in the United Kingdom. He helped to organize the First Universal Races Congress in 1911.

Life

Born in Budapest to a Jewish family, Gustav Spiller came to London in 1885 and gained work as a compositor. Influenced by Stanton Coit, until 1901 he worked as a printer work for the Bank of England for six months every year, using the rest of his time for self-education. In 1901 he became a lecturer for the Ethical movement, and in 1904 the salaried secretary of the International Union of Ethical Societies.[1]

Spiller and Felix Adler organized the International Moral Education Congress, held at the University of London in September 1908. There Spiller promoted the idea of a Universal Races Congress, which took place in London in 1911 with financial support from John E. Milholland.[2]

By 1920 Spiller had joined the Labour Office of the League of Nations in Geneva.[3]

Works

References

  1. Ian Duncan MacKillop (1986). The British Ethical Societies. Cambridge University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-521-26672-7. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  2. Ralph E. Luker (1991). Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8078-4720-6. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  3. The Humanist: An Organ of the Ethical Movement, 1920, p.71