EISNER, KURT (1867-1919), Bavarian politician and writer, was born in Berlin on May 14, 1867. He became a jour nalist, and was frequently imprisoned because of the socialist ten dency of his writings. He was successively on the editorial staff of V orwarts in Berlin (1898-1905) and of socialist newspapers at Nuremberg and Munich. After the outbreak of the World War he turned against his old allies, the Social Democrats, and attacked them for supporting the war. Convicted of treason in Jan. 1918, he was released on account of his candidature for the Reichstag, and was in time to organize the mass meeting which was held at Munich on Nov. 7, 1918, and resulted in the overthrow of the Bavarian monarchy. A Bavarian revolutionary and socialist gov ernment, with Eisner as its president, was established. He was opposed to the re-establishment of the federal system of the German Reich and to the election of a National Constituent As sembly. His revelations regarding Germany's responsibility for the War increased his unpopularity with the Bavarian reactionaries; and on his way to open the Bavarian assembly on Feb. 21, 1919, he was shot dead in the street by Count Arco-Vally. Among Eisner's various written works are Psycho pathia Spiritualis (1892) ; Eine Junkerrevolte (1899) ; Wilhelm Liebknecht (1900) ; Feste der Festlosen (1903); and Die Neue Zeit (1919). His works were published in collected form in 1919.