Hermann Georg Scheffauer

Hermann Georg Scheffauer moved among poetry, journalism, drama, and translation while engaging English and German cultural debates. Blood Money appeared in Hamburg in 1921 through the Overseas Publishing Company under the longer title Blood Money: Woodrow Wilson and the Nobel Peace Prize. The pamphlet belongs to Scheffauer’s political writing rather than to his poetry or literary translation. The edition uses the anglicized byline Herman George Scheffauer, while the stored author form preserves the German spelling Hermann Georg Scheffauer. His other work included translations of German writers into English, among them Thomas Mann, as well as essays and fiction addressing relations between Germany and the English-speaking world. Blood Money therefore sits within a career shaped by bilingual mediation and controversial public argument after the First World War. Its concise stored title loses the historical subject named by the original subtitle, a detail that is essential for distinguishing this polemical 1921 publication from unrelated works carrying the same short title.