LC control no. | no2011099872 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Saager, Adolf, 1879-1949 |
Birth date | 18790420 |
Death date | 19490831 |
Place of birth | Stuttgart, Germany |
Place of death | Massagno, Switzerland |
Profession or occupation | journalist writer |
Found in | Aus dem Leben eines Wiener Phäaken, 1781-1862, 1912: title page (Adolf Saager) Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, via WWW, June 24, 2011 (Adolf Saager; Swiss journalist and writer; born April 20, 1879 in Stuttgart; studied chemistry in Munich and Geneva; Ph. D. from the University of Heidelberg; became a freelance writer and editor in Munich in 1907; moved to Massagno, Switzerland in 1914; wrote for the national newspaper; translated the works of Alessandro Manzoni, Ignazio Silone and Felice Filippini; wrote biographies of Henry Ford, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin and Benito Mussolini; the grand theme of Saager novels was the reconciliation of nations; died August 31, 1949 in Massagno) |