"Adolf Albin, died in 1913, but his son Max Adolf Albin Jr who was born in 1870 in Bucharest and died 1 February 1920.

Adolf Albin's death is shrouded in mystery, but it is clear that he in 1913 went into an ever deeper depression, which seems to have had to do with his family circumstances.

Max Adolf Albin Jr. was born in 1870 in Bucharest and came at a young age with his family to Vienna. After completing studies, he served as professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna. He fell ill, however, with lung disease and left his post to devote himself entirely to playing chess.

Among the tournaments in which Max Adolf Albin participated include Vienna 1915.

He died in Vienna on 1 February 1920".

Albin appears to have spent much of his early career as a translator/assistant to Dr. Bethel Henry Baron von Stroussberg described in the Hastings Tournament Book as "the German Railway King". He lost this job with the latter's bankruptcy in 1875. Dr Stroussberg seems to have a very colourful high-fying career including a scandalous affair involving the Bank of Commerce of Moscow

Here is a translation of a Czech site with a lot of background about Albin's colourful employer:

<Max Adolf Albin Jr.>'s Swedish simultan as 'replacement for his father' is indeed somehow whimsical. I have no doubt that <Sthig Jonasson> research is trustable.

So <Max Adolf Albin Jr.> needs a players page, for the three '1914' games at least.

He faced 14 opponents: V Schiffer, S Steiner, Alfred Pink, O Strobl, k. Rat Viktor Harpner, Heinrich Kuhn, Dr. Konstantin Mandrila, Dr. Albert Mittler, Carl Schoham, Martin Kirschen, Erwin Kaufmann, Seidenstein, Otto Sternberg and Rittmeister Baron Döry von Jobahaza.

Already after one hour, Albin had checkmated an enemy ♔ on e4. Then he forced Steiner's resignation. Even Baron Döry, wo so far had managed to draw every Simul game (even one against Dr. Lasker), couldn't hold the game after his daring sacrifice had been refuted. Only Dr. Konstantin Mandrila managed to draw, despite being down a piece. Martin Kirschen even managed to win due to a sacrificial combination Albin didn't parry in time, or else the game would also have ended drawn. The last game was the one against Seidenstein, who finally resigned after a lively ♖ endgame.

So the final score is +12 -1 =1.

<Tab>'s find-a-grave link is good, although it's too bad there isn't an actual photograph of his gravestone (assuming he has one).

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Albin wrote a book, which gave rise to a June/July 1903 set of articles entitled: <Albin's Aphorisms>

https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2016...

Here's a few well-known sayings which we can credit to him:

<Chess-masters hope in vain to be admired (bewundert) by their colleagues. For the true master possesses the sense of beauty and greatness, nothing is new to him : he admires little, he only approves.>

<Oh, the Herr Doctor! [Tarrasch]. He is less deep than methodical ; he depends on his memory, and writes condescendingly of other players. If you show him one of your best games, he will speak to you of his own.>

<Those who play for drawn games are great lovers of nature ; they delight in the sound of falling wood.>

<The chess-master often has this experience, that the move which he has sought for long without finding, when he finally discovers it, is just the simplest and most obvious, and had been suggested to him at the very first.>

And perhaps the most famous: