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Baschwitz, Kurt, 1886-1968

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Personal name headingBaschwitz, Kurt, 1886-1968
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Variant(s)Visser, Casimir K., 1886-1968
Baschwitz, Siegfried Kurt, 1886-1968
Birth date1886-02-02
Death date1968-01-06
Place of birthOffenburg (Germany)
Place of deathAmsterdam (Netherlands)
Profession or occupationSocial scientists Journalists
Found inWegbereiter im Exil, 1990: t.p. (Kurt Baschwitz; Journalist und Zeitungswissenschaftler) p. [4] of cover (dates: 1886-1968)
Van de heksenwaag te Oudewater, [1941]: t.p. (Casimir K. Visser)
Jong, D. de. Het vrije boek in onvrije tijd, 1958 p. 267 (Visser, Casimir K.; pseud. of Kurt Baschwitz)
Kurt Baschwitz, 2018: p. 15 (one of the founders of the social science disciplines of mass communication and social psychology; journalist during the Weimar Republic; due to Nazi persecution fled Germany for The Netherlands; survived World War II in hiding in Amsterdam and remained in Amsterdam after the war)
Wikipedia, viewed July 24, 2018: (Kurt Baschwitz: Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz; (February 2, 1886, Offenburg-January 6, 1968 Amsterdam), was a journalist, a professor of press, propaganda and public opinion, scholar on newspapers, and crowd psychology; as was customary in the German middle class, he was known by his second name Kurt; a German Jew and friend of Otto Frank, Baschwitz was called upon as an expert to advise on the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank and later again authenticate it)