Subject: Falkbeer as chess journalist

On 2 February 2004 Anders Thulin replied in
Message-id:

Jeremy Spinrad wrote:

negative view of Falkbeer? I know he had a column in The Sunday Times, and
that
Staunton resented this as he resented all foreigners having columns, but
know
little about what he actually wrote.

Falkbeer also conducted columns in

Neue Illustrierte Zeitung, Vienna
period of office: 1877-10-22 -- 1885-12

über Land und Meer, Vienna
1877[?] -- 1885

(He died in 1885).

The Sunday Times period was long before that (1857 -- 1859).

I can't recall having seen any similar opinion expressed about
his column in contemporary sources.

--
Anders Thulin http://www.algonet.se/~ath


Is it possible that Staunton - a conservative, Tory? - resented Falkbeer as a
journalist because of Falkbeer's liberal leanings? It is reported that Falkbeer
contributed to many liberal journals? Did he not leave Vienna in 1848 for
political reasons? He lived in Germany from 1848 to 1852, when he returned to
Vienna. After he founded Austria's first chess magazine, Wiener Schachzeitung,
in January 1855, he went a few months later to live in London, where he resided
until 1864. He edited the chess column in the Sunday Times from April 1857 to
November 1859 and also edited The Chess Players' Magazine, which appeared for
the first time in January 1863. [Note: The name of the first editor of The
Chess Players' Magazine never appeared in print, but it is believed to have
been Falkbeer.] Falkbeer returned to Vienna in 1864 to continue his
journalistic career by editing the chess column in Neue Illustrierte Zeitung
from 22 October 1877 until his death in December 1885.

George Mirijanian