Dr. Friedrich Adler

Digital imageAmschelberg, Prag.Friedrich Adler (February 13, 1857, Amschelberg (Bohemia)/Kosova Hora (Czech Republic) – February 2, 1938, Prague) was an Austrian jurist, politician, translator and writer of Bohemian origin. He was an old friend of Albert Einstein in Poly. He studied at the Charles University in Prague and received a doctorate in law in 1883. In 1896, Adler became the secretary of the Prague trade body until WWI. He was also a lecturer for Romance philology at the German University in Prague. He was elected a member of the Society for the Promotion of German Sciences, Arts and Literature in Bohemia and was a prominent figure of the Prague literature scene at the turn of the century. He also was a member of the patriotic-liberal oriented German artists society Concordia. Adler died at the age of 81; his wife and daughters were victims of the Nazis shortly thereafter