!!!Marmorek, Oskar

b. Skala (Poland), April 9, 1863, d. Vienna (suicide), April 7, 
1909, architect and Zionist. At first designed buildings for the World 
Exhibition in Paris in 1889 and the amusement park "Venice in Vienna" 
("Venedig in Wien") in 1900. Drew up the plans for the "Cottage" area 
in Vienna (18th district) and planned the synagogue in Doebling, 
Vienna. Together with T.  Herzl and M.  Nordau he organized the first 
Zionist congress in Basle in 1897 and continued to be active in 
advocating the ideas of political Zionism.

!Literature
M. Kristan, O. M. Architekt und Zionist, 1996; OeBL; 
NDB.


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