American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)
Hugo Gernsback
Gernsback portrait by Fabian, date unknown
Born
Hugo Gernsbacher (1884-08-16)August 16, 1884 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Died
August 19, 1967(1967-08-19) (aged 83) Manhattan, New York City
Pen name
Beno Ruckshagg, Erno Shuckbagg, Grace G. Hucksnob, Grego Banshuck, Greno Gashbuck, Gus N. Habergock, Kars Gugenchob
Occupation
Inventor
magazine publisher
editor
writer
Nationality
Luxembourgish, American
Period
1911–1967 (fiction)
Genre
Science fiction
Gernsback demonstrating his television goggles in 1963 for Life magazineGernsback watching a television broadcast by his station WRNY on the cover of his Radio News (Nov 1928)
Hugo Gernsback (/ˈɡɜːrnzbæk/; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was an American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction".[1] In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".[2]
Gernsback emigrated to the U.S. in 1904 and later became a citizen. He was also a significant figure in the electronics and radio industries, even starting a radio station, WRNY, and the world's first magazine about electronics and radio, Modern Electrics. Gernsback died in New York City in 1967.
^Siegel, Mark Richard (1988). Hugo Gernsback, Father of Modern Science Fiction: With Essays on Frank Herbert and Bram Stoker. Borgo Pr. ISBN 0-89370-174-2.
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HugoGernsback (/ˈɡɜːrnzbæk/; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was an American editor and magazine publisher whose publications...
covers. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Hugos were first given in 1953, at the...
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technology magazine published from 1919 to 1971. The magazine was started by HugoGernsback as a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts, but it evolved to cover...
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joined by Amazing Stories, published by HugoGernsback; Amazing printed only science fiction, and no fantasy. Gernsback included a letter column in Amazing...
published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by HugoGernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine...
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themes—central to so much proto-science fiction prior to the pulp era—that HugoGernsback had tried to eliminate in his vision of "scientifiction". Among the...
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Experimenter Publishing was an American media company founded by HugoGernsback in 1915. The first magazine was The Electrical Experimenter (1913–1931)...
Brown and Company. p. 294. Gernsback, Hugo (1933). Technocracy Review, March 1933; quoted by Gary Westfahl in HugoGernsback and the Century of Science...
science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and HugoGernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world...
predicting machines and technology of the future.[citation needed] HugoGernsback believed from the beginning of his involvement with science fiction...
register, and is now permanently housed in Clervaux. Editor and author HugoGernsback, whose publications crystallized the concept of science fiction, was...
Franz Liszt, Blaise Pascal, Nikola Tesla (commissioned by his friend HugoGernsback and now displayed in the Nikola Tesla Museum), Torquato Tasso, Richard...
and Software Studies, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Westfahl, Gary (2007), HugoGernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, ISBN 978-0-7864-3079-6...
magazine existed between 1908 and 1914. Modern Electrics was created by HugoGernsback and began publication in April 1908. The magazine was initially intended...
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