Detre, Professor L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1874-1939) Probably the German/Hungarian medical scientist and author, possibly born Ladislaus Deutsch, who coined the term antigen; he is less likely to be the Hungarian astronomer, Laszlo Detre (1906-1974), who seems to have had no connection with Germany. Detre's sf novel, Két Világ Harca: Fantasztikus Regény (1935; trans as Kampf Zweier Welten 1935; trans from German as War of Two Worlds 1936), describes an alliance of ants and termites – who have gained by the year 2000 the ability to communicate with one another and with the human species – which threatens to end human civilization by destroying all cultivated crops unless humans give them half the planet, and abandon War. These terms are met. [JC]
Professor Laszlo Detre
born 1874
died 1939
works
- Két Világ Harca: Fantasztikus Regény (Vienna, Austria; Leipzig, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary: Rózsavölgyi, 1935) [binding unknown/]
- Kampf Zweier Welten (Vienna, Austria; Leipzig, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary: Rózsavölgyi, 1935) [trans anon of the above: hb/]
- War of Two Worlds (London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1936) [trans anon of the German trans above: hb/]
- Kampf Zweier Welten (Vienna, Austria; Leipzig, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary: Rózsavölgyi, 1935) [trans anon of the above: hb/]
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