Hugo Wolfram

Hugo Wolfram
Born1925
Bochum, Germany
Died (aged 90)
Oxford, England
Known forBusinessman
SpouseSybil Misch
ChildrenStephen Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram

Hugo Wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm; 1925 – 15 September 2015) was an English businessman and novelist, of German Jewish origin. He served as managing director of the Lurex Company, makers of Lurex (registered trade mark) metallic yarns and thread and was the author of three novels including Into a Neutral Country, a psychological novel about the experience of refugees and the predicament of "displaced persons".

Biography

Hugo Wolfram was born in Germany, emigrating to England in 1933. When World War II broke out, young Hugo left school at 15 and subsequently found it hard to get a job since he was an enemy alien. As an adult, he took correspondence courses in philosophy and psychology.

He was the father of computer scientist Stephen Wolfram and British technologist and businessman Conrad Wolfram.

References

  1. ↑ HUGO WOLFRAM - Oxford Mail
  2. 1 2 Hugo Wolfram – memorygiving.com
  3. 1 2 Telling a good yarn by Jenny Lunnon, Oxford Times, Thursday 21 September 2006.
  4. ↑ PHYSICIST AWARDED 'GENIUS' PRIZE FINDS REALITY IN INVISIBLE WORLD, by GLADWIN HILL, Special to the New York Times, Published: May 24, 1981
  5. ↑ Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center: Wolfram, Hugo (1925- ) Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine: "The Hugo Wolfram collection consists of manuscripts by Wolfram for novels, short stories, and essays.Drafts of novels by Wolfram include The Hours of Darkness (unpublished, 1958); Into a Neutral Country (Longmans, 1967); Root and Branch (Longmans, 1969); and The Autobiography of an Unpleasant Man (unpublished, 1972). The drafts of stories date from ca. 1948 to 1961 (some are undated).Also present is Wolfram's translation, from German to English, of a short passage from Robert Musil's book Nachlass zu Lebzeiten."
  6. ↑ Kirkus review of Into a Neutral Country, 1969.
  7. ↑ Hugo Wolfram. 1925- Archived 2015-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller in Westfalen.