Adolph Joffe

Adolph Joffe
Адо́льф Ио́ффе
Joffe in 1918
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to China
In office
1922–1924
Preceded byAleksandr Paykes
Succeeded byLev Karakhan
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Austria
In office
12 December 1924 – 29 June 1925
Preceded byVoldemar Aussem
Succeeded byJan Antonovich Berzin
Member of the 6th Secretariat
In office
6 August 1917 – 8 March 1918
Personal details
Born
Adolph Abramovich Joffe

10 October 1883
Simferopol, Russian Empire
Died16 November 1927 (1927-11-17) (aged 44)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1927)

Adolph Abramovich Joffe (Russian: Адо́льф Абра́мович Ио́ффе, alternative transliterations Adolf Ioffe or, rarely, Yoffe) (10 October 1883 – 16 November 1927) was a Russian revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent.