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Magnus, Leonard A

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(1879-1924) UK linguist, author, translator and textual scholar who specialized in Russian literature; of sf interest is A Japanese Utopia (1905), whose Japanese protagonist finds, in a Lost World north of Japan, an advanced, benignly anarchic Utopia. According to his Times obituary he died after, while travelling through Russia collecting folktales and folklore for a forthcoming book, he was "attacked by a malignant germ". [JC/MA]

Leonard Arthur Magnus

born 12 December 1879

died Moscow: 11 September 1924

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