Eden Paul
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Maurice Eden Paul, most commonly known simply as Eden Paul (1865, Sturminster Marshall
, Dorset
– 1 December 1944) was a socialist physician, writer and translator.
and University College London
; he continued his medical studies at London Hospital. In the mid-1880s he helped Beatrice Webb
and Ella Pycroft run St Katharine's Buildings in the East End, and in 1886 joined Charles Booth
's Board of Statistical Inquiry investigating poverty in London.
In 1890, he married Margaret Jessie Macdonald, née Boag, a ward sister at the London Hospital. From 1892-4, he taught at a university in Japan
, where his daughter Hester was born in 1893.
He travelled with the Japanese army as a Times correspondent during the First Sino-Japanese War
of 1895. Between 1895 and 1912, he practiced medicine in Japan, China
, Perak
, Singapore
, Alderney and England
.He was the founder and editor of the Nagasaki Press, 1897-99.
By 1903, the family had moved to Alderney
, where his wife later established a private nursing home; however, the couple separated about this time. From 1907-19, he was a member of the ILP
, and worked for the French Socialist Party from 1912-14. He subsequently joined the Communist Party of Great Britain
.
. In 1939, aged 74, he was badly injured in a motor accident near Grasse
. With his second wife, Cedar Paul
, he wrote several books for a socialist reading public, and they also worked together to translate from German
, French
, Italian
and Russian
.
Other works
Sturminster Marshall
Sturminster Marshall is a village and civil parish in east Dorset in England, situated on the River Stour between Blandford Forum and Poole. The parish has a population of 1,895 , and includes the village of Almer west of Sturminster Marshall, near Winterborne Zelston and the hamlet of Henbury to...
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
– 1 December 1944) was a socialist physician, writer and translator.
Biography
The younger son of the publisher Charles Kegan Paul, Maurice Eden Paul was educated at University College SchoolUniversity College School
University College School, generally known as UCS, is an Independent school charity situated in Hampstead, north west London, England. The school was founded in 1830 by University College London and inherited many of that institution's progressive and secular views...
and University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
; he continued his medical studies at London Hospital. In the mid-1880s he helped Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Webb
Martha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...
and Ella Pycroft run St Katharine's Buildings in the East End, and in 1886 joined Charles Booth
Charles Booth (philanthropist)
Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
's Board of Statistical Inquiry investigating poverty in London.
In 1890, he married Margaret Jessie Macdonald, née Boag, a ward sister at the London Hospital. From 1892-4, he taught at a university in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, where his daughter Hester was born in 1893.
He travelled with the Japanese army as a Times correspondent during the First Sino-Japanese War
First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea...
of 1895. Between 1895 and 1912, he practiced medicine in Japan, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Perak
Perak
Perak , one of the 13 states of Malaysia, is the second largest state in the Peninsular Malaysia bordering Kedah and Yala Province of Thailand to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, Selangor the Strait of Malacca to the south and west.Perak means silver in Malay...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Alderney and England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.He was the founder and editor of the Nagasaki Press, 1897-99.
By 1903, the family had moved to Alderney
Alderney
Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick...
, where his wife later established a private nursing home; however, the couple separated about this time. From 1907-19, he was a member of the ILP
Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave...
, and worked for the French Socialist Party from 1912-14. He subsequently joined the Communist Party of Great Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:...
.
Later years
In 1932 he retired to live on the French RivieraFrench Riviera
The Côte d'Azur, pronounced , often known in English as the French Riviera , is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco...
. In 1939, aged 74, he was badly injured in a motor accident near Grasse
Grasse
-See also:*Route Napoléon*Ancient Diocese of Grasse*Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department-External links:*...
. With his second wife, Cedar Paul
Cedar Paul
Cedar Paul, née Gertrude Mary Davenport was a singer, author, translator and journalist.-Biography:Gertrude Davenport came from a musical family: she was the grand-daughter of the composer George Alexander Macfarren and the daughter of the composer Francis William Davenport...
, he wrote several books for a socialist reading public, and they also worked together to translate from German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
.
Works
Translations undertaken with Cedar Paul- Napoléon by Emil LudwigEmil LudwigEmil Ludwig was a German author, known for his biographies.-Biography:Emil Ludwig was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist...
. New York, N.Y. : Boni & Liveright, 1926 - Bismarck; the story of a fighter by Emil Ludwig. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1927
- The Son of man: the story of Jesus by Emil Ludwig. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928
- Capital, by Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
. Translated from the 4th German edition of Das KapitalDas KapitalDas Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie , by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, and how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production.- Themes :In Capital: Critique of...
. London: Allen & Unwin, 1928 - Lincoln by Emil Ludwig. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1930
- Joseph Fouché, the portrait of a politician by Stefan ZweigStefan ZweigStefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.- Biography :...
. New York: Viking Press, 1930 - Marie Antoinette, the portrait of an average woman by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1933
- Bula Matari: Stanley, conqueror of a continent by Jakob WassermannJakob WassermannJakob Wassermann was a Jewish-German writer and novelist.- Life :Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers...
. New York, Liveright Inc., 1933 - Erasmus of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1934
- Mary, queen of Scotland and the Isles by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1935
- Arturo Toscanini by Paul StefanPaul StefanPaul Stefan, born Paul Stefan Grünfeld was an Austrian music historian and critic.Paul Stefan came to live in Vienna in 1898. He attended courses in law, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna, before studying music theory with Hermann Graedener and possibly composition under...
. New York: Viking Press, 1936 - Insulted and exiled : the truth about the German Jews by Stefan Zweig. London: John Mills, 1937
- Triumph over pain by René Fülöp-MillerRené Fülöp-MillerRené Fülöp-Miller, born Philip Müller was an Austrian cultural historian and writer.-Works:* Rasputin : the holy devil, 1927...
. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1938 - Conqueror of the seas; the story of Magellan by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1938
- Karl Marx: his Life and Work by Otto RuhleOtto RühleOtto Rühle was a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder with along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale, which posed a revolutionary internationalism against a world of warring...
. New York: New Home Library, 1943
Other works
- (ed.) Lectures on pathology: delivered at the London Hospital by Henry Gawen SuttonHenry Gawen SuttonHenry Gawen Sutton was an English physician. He was born in Middlesbrough and obtained his medical training at Middlesbrough but qualified at University College London and practised in London for the rest of his life, initially as a general practitioner but later, after gaining membership of the...
, revised by Samuel WilksSamuel WilksSir Samuel Wilks, 1st Baronet , was a British physician and biographer.-Early life:Samuel Wilks was born on 2 June 1824 in Camberwell, London, the second son of Joseph Barber Wilks, a cashier at the East India House...
. London: J. & A. Churchill; Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1891. - (tr. with Peter Galstann Edgar) Introduction to the study of Malarial Diseases by Reinhold Ruge. London: Rebman Limited, 1903.
- (tr.) An atlas of human anatomy for students and physicians by Carl ToldtCarl ToldtCarl Toldt was an Austrian anatomist who was a native of Bruneck, Tyrol.In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate in Vienna, and later was a professor of anatomy in Prague and Vienna...
. London: Rebman, 1903-. Translated from the 3rd German ed. and adapted to English and American and international terminology. - (tr.) The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization by Iwan BlochIwan BlochIwan Bloch was a Berlin dermatologist.Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904...
. London: Rebman, 1908. Translated from the sixth German edition. - Karl Marx and modern socialism, Manchester: National Labour Press, [1908?]
- 'Socialism and Science', Socialist Review, April 1909. Reprinted Keighley: Wadsworth & Co., [1909.] An address to the members of the Poole and Branksome Branch of the Independent Labour PartyIndependent Labour PartyThe Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave...
, Sunday, January 24th, 1909. - Psychical research and thought transference: their meaning and recent history, London: Watts & Co., 1911. Issues for the Rationalist Press Association.
- Socialism and eugenics, Manchester: National Labour Press, [1911]. Reprinted from the Labour Leader.
- Cesare LombrosoCesare LombrosoCesare Lombroso, born Ezechia Marco Lombroso was an Italian criminologist and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature...
: a modern man of science by Hans Kurella. London: Rebman, 1911. Translated from the German. - (tr.) Sexual life of the Child by Albert Moll. London, 1912. Translated from the German. With an introduction by Edward L. Thorndike
- (tr.) The elements of child-protection by Sigmund Engel. New York: Macmillan, 1912. Translated from the German.
- The Sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspects by E. Heinrich Kisch. London; printed in America: William Heinemann, [1913?]. The only authorized translation from the German.
- (tr.) The economic synthesis : a study of the laws of income by Achille LoriaAchille LoriaAchille Loria was an Italian political economist.He was educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities of Bologna, Pavia, Rome, Berlin, and London and graduated at the University of Bologna...
, London: George Allen, 1914. Translated from the Italian. - (with Cedar Paul) Independent working class education : thoughts and suggestions. London: Workers' Socialist Federation, 1918
- (with Cedar Paul) Bolshevism in industry and politics: new tactics for the social revolution, London: London Workers' Committee, 1918.
- (with Cedar Paul) Creative revolution : a study of communist ergatocracy, London: Plebs League, 1920
- 'SteinachEugen SteinachEugen Steinach was a leading Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology.-Biography:He was born on January 28, 1861 in Austria....
's rejuvenation experiments', in E. Paul & Norman HaireNorman HaireNorman Haire, born Norman Zions was an Australian medical practitioner and sexologist. He has been called "the most prominent sexologist in Britain" between the wars.-Life:...
, Rejuvenation: Steinach's researches on the sex-glands, London: Athenaeum Press, 1923 - Chronos. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930
External links
- Papers of Maurice Eden Paul and his wife, Cedar Paul at the Bodleian LibraryBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...