Leonard Arthur Magnus

Leonard Arthur Magnus, LL.B.

(December 12, 1879 – September 11, 1924) was a British scholar and translator with interests in Russian literature, as well as an author a novel of utopian fiction.

He was the editor of Respublica for the Early English Text Society, a translator from Russian, and an author of his own works.

[2] In 1923–1924 he was traveling in the interior of Russia, facilitated by the Commissar of Education of Russia Lunacharsky, pursuing his studies in the folklore of Russia.

He was "attacked by a malignant germ" and failed to get home, dying in Russia,[2] in a hursing-home in Moscow.