Hugo Gernsback | |
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![]() Gernsback portrait by Fabian, date unknown | |
Born | Hugo Gernsbacher August 16, 1884 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |
Died | August 19, 1967 Manhattan, New York City | (aged 83)
Pen name | Beno Ruckshagg, Erno Shuckbagg, Grace G. Hucksnob, Grego Banshuck, Greno Gashbuck, Gus N. Habergock, Kars Gugenchob |
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Nationality | Luxembourgish, American |
Period | 1911–1967 (fiction) |
Genre | Science fiction |
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.
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