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Fabian Franklin was an American mathematician, journalist, and publicist.
Background
He was born in Eger, Hungary, the son of Morris J. and Sarah (Heilprin) Frankel. He was brought to America by his parents at about the age of two, at which time they changed their name to Franklin.
His father, an optician, first settled in Philadelphia, but the family (there were a number of children, some of them older than Fabian) moved to Washington in 1861.
His mother belonged to the family of which Michael Heilprin and his sons Angelo and Louis were distinguished members.
Education
Attending Columbian College (later George Washington University) in Washington, he attracted attention by the brilliancy of his mind and won his bachelor's degree (1869) at the age of sixteen.
The award of a fellowship in the new Johns Hopkins University, where he gained his Ph. D. degree (1880) in mathematics under James J. Sylvester, always one of his idols, marked the opening of his true career.
Career
German was his parents' tongue, but he became a master of English and read widely in the Victorian classics, for which he always had a passionate fondness. Residing with his family in Washington, he witnessed much of the political drama of Reconstruction. For eight years, 1869-77, he worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, but with no desire to devote his life to that calling.
He became associate professor and afterwards professor at Hopkins, occupying Sylvester's old chair (1879 - 95).
Becoming a prominent figure in Baltimore, and taking part in Cleveland's presidential campaigns, Franklin was irresistibly drawn into public affairs.
His contributions to the Baltimore News, controlled by Charles H. Grasty, grew numerous, and in 1895 he accepted Grasty's invitation to act as editor.
Taking the conservative side in the campaign of 1896, he made the News a greater power than ever before. He had found his true profession, that of publicist, and by editorials, magazine articles, books, and pamphlets he thenceforth devoted himself to a set of deeplyfelt principles.
An adherent of the Manchester School, he believed fervently in world peace, low tariffs, women's rights, administrative reform, and laissez-faire.
From the editorship of the News Franklin turned in 1908 to an associate-editorship of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, both then edited in conjunction by Rollo Ogden, a change which gave him a wider public and a more dignified forum.
He devotedly espoused the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson and the main Wilsonian policies. In the events leading to the first World War and throughout that conflict he was an intense partisan of the Allied cause, attacking the Central Powers with a zeal which owed something to hereditary antagonism to autocracy but more to devotion to the values of Anglo-French civilization.
His anonymous editorial articles were always unmistakable in style, as in content. His periodic sentence structure, balanced clauses, and Latinized diction gave them a weight unusual in journalism, while his wit lent them point.
But the most distinguishing trait of his pen was its logical precision; trained in mathematics, he abhorred loose, inexact, and irresponsible thinking and was at his best in exposing fallacies and shams.
His fund of reading in literature, politics, and economics was enormous. His enthusiasm for his special causes, nearly all keyed to the ideas of John Stuart Mill, was as burning as his anger in the face of demagogy or folly.
Even those who thought him excessively conservative never doubted his courage or intellectual honesty. During his busiest years as a journalist Franklin published a number of books: People and Problems (1908), a collection of articles and editorials; The Life of Daniel Coit Gilman (1910); and a volume on Cost of Living (1915).
Yet he added to his reputation by his effective crusade against prohibition, which he condemned as a vicious interference with personal liberty. In articles, in letters to the editors of newspapers, and in a series of books, What Prohibition Has Done to America (1922), The ABC of Prohibition (1927), and Nuggets from the Wickersham Report (1931), he exposed all the weaknesses of prohibition legislation.
He died of pneumonia in New York City following an operation for hernia. His body was cremated. Intensity, courage, wit, and broad humanity made Franklin's personality arresting.
As a child and youth, Fabian Franklin was deeply affected by the Hungarian struggle for liberty under Kossuth and De k, in which both the Frankels and Heilprins had participated; he was from the beginning an intense believer in political freedom and a hater of tyranny.
In the events leading to the first World War and throughout that conflict he was an intense partisan of the Allied cause, attacking the Central Powers with a zeal which owed something to hereditary antagonism to autocracy but more to devotion to the values of Anglo-French civilization.
Personality
His later years were clouded by the death of his wife, financial anxieties, and the lack of a proper outlet for his opinions; but his wisdom, kindliness, and devotion to truth remained what they had been. His stout figure, short gray beard, round bald brow, and piercing brown eyes were all animated by the militant fervor of his generosities and his condemnations, which made him a man of electric quality.
Quotes from others about the person
His powers as conversationalist led the New York Times (Jan. 10, 1939) to rank him with "the giants in the art, not excluding his favorite Lord Macaulay, " and Christopher Morley to declare his talk "as nearly Johnsonian in virtue and pungency" as any in the nation.
Connections
It was early in this period, on August 24, 1882, that he married. His wife, Christine Ladd-Franklin, was a psychologist of distinction, in whose achievements he always took the keenest pride. They had one child, Margaret Ladd.