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Gernsback Publications

Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback by Bachrach.jpg
Gernsback portrait by Fabian, date unknown
Born Hugo Gernsbacher
(1884-08-16)August 16, 1884
Bonnevoie Luxembourg
Died August 19, 1967(1967-08-19) (aged 83)
Manhattan, New York City, USA
Occupation Inventor, magazine publisher, editor, writer
Nationality Luxembourgish, American
Period 1911–1967 (science fiction)
Genre Science fiction
Subject Science and technology

Hugo Gernsback (born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher–although not as a writer–were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".

Gernsback was born in 1884 in Bonnevoie in Luxembourg, to Berta (Dürlacher), a housewife, and Moritz Gernsbacher, a winemaker. His family was Jewish. Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1904 and later became a naturalized citizen. He married three times: to Rose Harvey in 1906, Dorothy Kantrowitz in 1921, and Mary Hancher in 1951. In 1925, Hugo founded radio station WRNY, which broadcast from the 18th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. In 1928, WRNY gave some of the first television broadcasts. During the show, audio stopped and each artist waved or bowed onscreen. When audio resumed, they performed. Gernsback is also considered a pioneer in amateur radio.

Before helping to create science fiction, Gernsback was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry, importing radio parts from Europe to the United States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless". In April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called "wireless" at the time. While the cover of the magazine itself states it was a catalog, most historians note that it contained articles, features, and plotlines, qualifying it as a magazine.


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