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James Vincent Murphy

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Nationality
  
Irish

Alma mater
  
St. Patrick's College


Name
  
James Murphy

Role
  
Writer

Born
  
July 7, 1880 Innishannon (Knockavilla) (
1880-07-07
)

Occupation
  
Translator, writer, journalist

Notable works
  
Translation of Mein Kampf

Died
  
July 5, 1946, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom

Education
  
St Patrick's College, Maynooth

James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 5 July 1946) was an Irish translator, writer, and journalist, who published one of the first complete English translations of Mein Kampf in 1939.

James Murphy attended St. Patrick's College. He was ordained a priest at St. Patrick's College Chapel in 1905.

He left clerical service. Before the Second World War he lived for some time in Italy and Germany.

Works

  • (transl.) Max Planck, Where is science going?, 1932 (preface by Albert Einstein)
  • (transl.) Emil Ludwig, Leaders of Europe, 1934
  • Adolf Hitler: the drama of his career, 1934
  • (transl.) Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, (biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford)
  • (transl.) Adolf Hitler, http://www.greatwar.nl/books/meinkampf/meinkampf.pdf Mein Kampf, 1939
  • Who sent Rudolf Hess?, 1941

    • References

    James Vincent Murphy Wikipedia
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