BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian Journalist and former Student of Indology in Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Grew up in Zürich, where family moved when he was rwo years old. Studies of Oriental Philology at Vienna, Ph.D. 1912. Returned to Zürich in 1913 and was working for British Indian police tracing revolutionary Indian in continental Europe, but became involved in an attempted attentat and was arrested in 1918, but finally released. Left British service and worked in Z. as author and journalist, but without much success. Twice briefly married.
Publications: Diss. Das Rta und die Âdityas. Manuscript, Vienna 1912.
– Publ. notes on Greek epigraphy, etc. in Wiener Studien 1911 and Klio 1912.
Sources: Neither in Ö.B.L. nor N.U.C., but found in www.matrikel.uzh.ch/active/static/3256.htm and scopeq.cc.univie.ac.at/Query/detail.aspx?ID=210805; the identical birth date shows that Vienna doctor and E.E. Briess in Zürich was the same person; L. Vogel on “Bombenprozess” in historia-nostra.ch.
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