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Saager, Adolf, 1879-1949

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Personal name headingSaager, Adolf, 1879-1949
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Birth date18790420
Death date19490831
Place of birthStuttgart, Germany
Place of deathMassagno, Switzerland
Profession or occupationjournalist
writer
Found inAus 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)