Robert houdin books6/19/2023 ![]() Bizarrely, the printing in England claims copyright in 1906, 19. In a personal crusade he researched and wrote his book The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin which he finished on 20th July 1907 and which appeared in print the following year. This was obviously a crushing blow to Houdini who was now so well known under his chosen stage name that he could not change it. Houdini later found out that a number of the effects that Robert-Houdin claimed to have invented were not invented by him at all. Unfortunately, the story doesn't end there. In part tribute to Robert-Houdin, and because he apparently believed that adding an "i" on the end of a name meant "like" in French, Harry Weiss decided to rename himself Harry Houdini and become a professional magician. ![]() A couple of years later, in early 1891, he read The Memories of Robert-Houdin, the well known French magician. According to his boyhood friend, Joseph F Rinn, in his book Sixty Years of Psychical Research, Weiss started his magic career some time in 1889. In turn that was shortened to "Ehrie" and anglicized to "Harry". The family changed the spelling of their surname to the German "Weiss" and, in turn, Erik became "Ehrich". He emigrated to the United States of America with his mother and four brothers in 1878. He was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874. ![]() It is common knowledge that one of the world's greatest magicians gave himself the stage name of Houdini.
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