Maurice Eden Paul

Maurice Eden Paul (27 September 1865, Sturminster Marshall – 1 December 1944) was a British socialist activist, physician, writer and translator.'Paul, Maurice Eden' in ''Who Was Who''

Early life

Paul was the younger son of the publisher Charles Kegan Paul,Beatrice Webb, ''My Apprenticeship'', 1979, pp. 268–9 and Margaret Colvile. His mother was one of 12 daughters born to Andrew Wedderburn-Colvile (1779–1856) and the Hon. Mary Louisa Eden, fifth daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.

He was educated at University College School and University College London; he continued his medical studies at London Hospital. In the mid-1880s he helped Beatrice Webb and Ella Pycroft run Katharine Buildings, model dwellings that were the first project of the philanthropically-motivated East End Dwellings Company,''The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 3, Pilgrimage 1912–1947'', pgs. 441-2 and in 1886 joined Charles Booth's Board of Statistical Inquiry investigating poverty in London.

In 1890, he married Margaret Jessie Macdonald, ''née'' Boag, a ward sister at the London Hospital. From 1892–4, he taught at a university in Japan, where his daughter Hester was born in 1893.Papers of PAUL, Margaret Jessie
(fl. 1851–1919) at the Royal London Hospital

Journalism

He travelled with the Japanese army as a ''Times'' correspondent during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895. Between 1895 and 1912, he practised medicine in Japan, China, Perak, Singapore, Alderney and England. He was the founder and editor of the ''Nagasaki Press'', 1897–99.

By 1903, the family had moved to Alderney, where his wife later established a private nursing home; however, the couple separated about this time. From 1907 to 1919, he was a member of the ILP where he promoted eugenics, and worked for the French Socialist Party from 1912 to 1914. He later joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He remained active in the CPGB at least until 1928.

Later years

In 1932 he retired to live on the French Riviera. In 1939, aged 74, he was badly injured in a motor accident near Grasse.''The Times'', 20 March 1939, pg. 20 With his second wife, Cedar Paul, he wrote several books for a socialist reading public, and they also worked together to translate from German, French, Italian and Russian.

Works

Translations undertaken with Cedar Paul

* ''The ABC of Communism'' by Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky London: The Communist Party of Great Britain
* ''Napoléon'' by Emil Ludwig. New York, N.Y. : Boni & Liveright, 1926
* ''Bismarck; the story of a fighter'' by Emil Ludwig. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1927
* ''The Son of man: the story of Jesus'' by Emil Ludwig. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928
* ''Capital'', by Karl Marx. Translated from the 4th German edition of ''Das Kapital''. London: Allen & Unwin, 1928
* ''Karl Marx: his Life and Work'' by Otto Ruhle. New York: Viking/London: Allen & Unwin, 1929
* ''Lincoln'' by Emil Ludwig. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1930
* ''Joseph Fouché, the portrait of a politician'' by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1930
* ''Marie Antoinette, the portrait of an average woman'' by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1933
* ''Bula Matari: Stanley, conqueror of a continent'' by Jakob Wassermann. New York, Liveright Inc., 1933
* ''Erasmus of Rotterdam'' by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1934
* ''Mary, queen of Scotland and the Isles'' by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1935
* ''Arturo Toscanini'' by Paul Stefan. New York: Viking Press, 1936
* ''Insulted and exiled : the truth about the German Jews'' by Stefan Zweig. London: John Mills, 1937
* ''Racism'' by Magnus Hirschfeld, 1938
* ''Imperial Byzantium'' by Bertha Diener. Boston: 1938 Translates '' Byzanz, von Kaisern, Engeln und Eunuchen'', Leipzig, 1937.
* ''Triumph over pain'' by René Fülöp-Miller. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1938
* ''Conqueror of the seas; the story of Magellan'' by Stefan Zweig. New York: Viking Press, 1938

;Other works
* (ed.) ''Lectures on pathology: delivered at the London Hospital'' by Henry Gawen Sutton, revised by Samuel Wilks. London: J. & A. Churchill; Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1891.
* (tr. with Peter Galstann Edgar) ''Introduction to the study of Malarial Diseases'' by Reinhold Ruge. London: Rebman Limited, 1903.
* (tr.) ''An atlas of human anatomy for students and physicians'' by Carl Toldt. London: Rebman, 1903–. Translated from the 3rd German ed. and adapted to English and American and international terminology.
* (tr.) ''The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilisation'' by Iwan Bloch. London: Rebman, 1908. Translated from the sixth German edition.
* ''Karl Marx and modern socialism'', Manchester: National Labour Press, 908?* 'Socialism and Science', ''Socialist Review'', April 1909. Reprinted Keighley: Wadsworth & Co., 909.An address to the members of the Poole and Branksome Branch of the Independent Labour Party, Sunday, 24 January 1909.
* ''Psychical research and thought transference: their meaning and recent history'', London: Watts & Co., 1911. Issues for the Rationalist Press Association.
* ''Socialism and eugenics'', Manchester: National Labour Press, 911 Reprinted from the ''Labour Leader''.
* ''Cesare Lombroso: a modern man of science'' by Hans Kurella. London: Rebman, 1911. Translated from the German.
* (tr.) '' Sexual life of the Child'' by Albert Moll. London, 1912. Translated from the German. With an introduction by Edward L. Thorndike
* (tr.) ''The elements of child-protection'' by Sigmund Engel. New York: Macmillan, 1912. Translated from the German.
* ''The Sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspects'' by E. Heinrich Kisch. London; printed in America: William Heinemann, 913? The only authorised translation from the German.
* (tr.) ''The economic synthesis : a study of the laws of income'' by Achille Loria, London: George Allen, 1914. Translated from the Italian.
* (with Cedar Paul) ''Independent working class education : thoughts and suggestions''. London: Workers' Socialist Federation, 1918
* (with Cedar Paul) ''Bolshevism in industry and politics: new tactics for the social revolution'', London: London Workers' Committee, 1918.
* (with Cedar Paul) ''Creative revolution : a study of communist ergatocracy'', London: Plebs League, 1920
* (with Cedar Paul) ''Proletcult (proletarian Culture)'', New York: T. Seltzer, Incorporated, 1921
*' Steinach's rejuvenation experiments', in E. Paul & Norman Haire, ''Rejuvenation: Steinach's researches on the sex-glands'', London: Athenaeum Press, 1923
* ''Chronos''. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930

References

External links

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Papers of Maurice Eden Paul and his wife, Cedar Paul
at the Bodleian Library

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1865 births
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19th-century English medical doctors
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20th-century English medical doctors
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