Walter Henry JOHNSTON

author, editor, translator

b. Jan 20 or 21, 1895
Ealing, Brentford, Middlesex[1][2][3][4]
(as W. H. LEVI, name changed in 1920[5])

m. Jul-Sep 1936, Hampstead, Middlesex
Betty KROSOFF[6]

d. Jan-Mar 1957
Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, England[7]

parents:

Arthur Joseph LEVI
b. Oct 6, 1862, Berlin, Prussia, Germany

m. Aug 31, 1893, New York

Mary Frances JOHNSTON
b. Oct 17, 1862, New York, USA

res.: 17 Arlington Road, Ealing, London[1][3]

siblings:

Anna Katharine
b. March 9, 1896, London

education:

St. Paul's School, London
Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A.[8]

occupation:

assistant editor, Yorkshire Post, Leeds[9]

residence:

9 Amhearst-road, Ealing, London (1920)[5]

bibliography:

as author:

Building a little ship, G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1935

as translator:

Christianity and Fear (Das Christentum und die Angst),
Oskar Robert PFISTER (1873-1956),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1948

Ethical Principles in Theory and Practice,
Hans Adolf Eduard DRIESCH(1867-1941),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1930

Germany's Comeback in the World Market
(Deutschlands Rückkehr zum Weltmarkt),
Ludwig Wilhelm ERHARD (1897-1977),
Dr. Vollrath von MALTZAN (1899-1967)(ass.),
Dr. Herbert GROSS (ed.), G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1954

Hegel's Science of Logic,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL (1770-1831),
L. G. STRUTHERS (co-translator),
G. Allen & Unwin, London/MacMillan, New York, 1929

Ludendorff, the Tragedy of a Military Mind
(Ludendorff. Die Tragödie des Fachmanns.),
Karl TSCHUPPIK(1876-1937),
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, New York, 1932

Ludendorff, the Tragedy of a Specialist
(Ludendorff. Die Tragödie des Fachmanns.),
Karl TSCHUPPIK (1876-1937),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1932

Man and the Universe (Der Mensch und die Welt),
Hans Adolf Eduard DRIESCH (1867-1941),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1929

Matter and Light, the New Physics,
Louis de BROGLIE (1892-1987),
W. W. Norton, New York, 1939

Our World and its Beginnings
(Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde),
Gustav FOCHLER-HAUKE (1906-1996),
Odhams Press, London, 1958

Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's Attendant Star,
Joachim KÜHN, Hutchinson, London, 1937

Science and the Human Temperament
Erwin SCHRÖDINGER (1887-1961),
James Vincent MURPHY(1880-1946)
(biographical intro/co-translator),
G. Allen & Unwin, London/W. W. Norton, New York, 1935

The League on Trial, A Journey to Geneva,
Max BEER (1864-1943),
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, New York, 1933

The Philosophy of Physics,
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PLANCK (1858-1947),
G. Allen & Unwin, London/W. W. Norton, New York, 1936

The Press in England,
Kurt von Stutterheim (1888-1978),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1934

The Science of Character (Grundlagen der Charakterkunde),
Friedrich Konrad Eduard Wilhelm Ludwig KLAGES(1852-1956),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1929

The Spirit of British Policy
and the Myth of the Encirclement of Germany,
Hermann KANTOROWICZ (1877-1940),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1931

The Stars above us,
or, the Conquest of Superstition
(Sternglaube und Sternforschung),
Ernst ZINNER (1886-1970),
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1957

The Structure of Thought, A Survey of Natural Philosophy
(Die natürliche Ordnung unseres Denkens),
Dr. phil. Ludwig FISCHER,
G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1931

The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics
(Das Weltbild der neuen Physik/
Physikalische Gesetzlichkeit im Lichte neuerer Forschung),
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PLANCK (1858-1947),
G. Allen & Unwin, London/W. W. Norton, New York, 1931

sources:

1 Families of Dickerman Ancestry,
E. D./G. S. Dickerman, New Haven, 1897, p. 267
2 England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1915
3 London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
4 1901 England Census
5 The London Gazette, 3 August, 1920, p. 8126, col. B
6 England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
7 England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
8 Who was who among English and European authors, 1931-1949
9 Britannica book of the year, F. H. Hooper/W. Yust, 1953


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