Laurie Magnus (5 August 1872 – 28 April 1933) was an

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author, journalist, and publisher.

Biography

Magnus was born in London to

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parents

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and Sir

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. He was educated at St Paul's School, and graduated with a

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from

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, where he read

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. He was the Berlin correspondent of the London ''

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'' (1896–1900) and leader-writer for the same paper. By 1904, he was a joint managing director of

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. Magnus edited a series of ''Secondary Education Text-Books'' for the publishing house of John Murray, has published ''A Primer of Wordsworth'', translated the first volume of ''Greek Thinkers'' (from the German of

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), and has edited ''Prayers from the Poets'' and ''Flowers of the Cave'' (in conjunction with

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). He also wrote written ''Aspects of the Jewish Question'' (1902), reprinted and enlarged from the ''

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''. Magnus unsuccessfully ran as a Unionist for Bristol North in the December 1910 British general election, and was a

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in the

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during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. He was active in Jewish communal life as a

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of the

West London Synagogue The West London Synagogue of British Jews, abbreviated WLS ( he, ק"ק שער ציון, ''Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar Tziyon'', "Holy Congregation Gate of Zion"), is a synagogue and congregation, affiliated to Reform Judaism, near Marble Arch in centr ...

, a member of the council of

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, and president of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Magnus, Laurie 1872 births 1933 deaths Royal Defence Corps officers British Army personnel of World War I Military personnel from London 19th-century British Jews 19th-century English writers 20th-century British Jews 20th-century English writers Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British Reform Jews English Jewish writers English publishers (people) Jewish non-fiction writers People educated at St Paul's School, London