Background
Pollak, Gustav was born on May 4, 1849 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Lazar and Magdalena (Klein) Pollak.
Pollak, Gustav was born on May 4, 1849 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Lazar and Magdalena (Klein) Pollak.
Educated in Vienna.
Contributor to New York Nation, since 1874, and to New York Evening Post, chiefly on foreign politics and literature subjects, since 1881. Upon consolidation of The Nation and Evening Post, 1881, was cashier Evening Post Public Company, 1881-1893, continuing literature connection with The Nation and Evening Post both before and after resigning position as cashier. Editor Babyhood, 1884-1909.
Lectured on Austrian Dramatists, Johns Hopkins, 1905. Was candidate of Gold Democrats for state senator from Union Company, New Jersey, 1896. One of founders of the German-American Reform Union during presidential campaign, 1892.
Author: The Century Book for Mothers (with Doctor L. M. Collge Pharmacy Yale), 1901. Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian Drama, 1907. The Hygiene of the Soul, 1910.
Michael Heilprin and His Sons, 1913. International Perspective in Literary Criticism, 1914. Fifty Years of American Idealism, 1915.
The House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1917. Home: New York, New York.
Married Celia Heilprin, May 23, 1875.