James Vincent Murphy

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Nationality Irish Alma mater St. Patrick's College		Name James Murphy Role Writer
Born July 7, 1880Innishannon (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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