Augustin Hamon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Augustin Hamon

French writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1862

Place of Birth: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1945

Profession: translator

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Augustin Frédéric Hamon (1862–1945) was a French socialist-anarchist writer and editor. Hamon founded the anarchist magazine L'Humanité nouvelle in 1897, and edited it until 1903.Hamon met George Bernard Shaw for the first time at a Fabian Congress in London in 1894.
From 1904 onwards he and his wife Henriette (née Rynenbroeck) translated Shaw's work into French.Hamon was a proponent of using antisemitism to appeal to a mass audience, arguing in an 1898 interview that "With the petty bourgeois especially, anti-Judaism is the road to Socialism.
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.the stage through which the petty bourgeois passes before becoming a Socialist".His papers are held at the International Institute of Social History.