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Ludwig Robert

Ludwig Robert

German dramatist

Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert (or Robert-Tornow; 16 December 1778 – 5 July 1832) was a German dramatist.

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Life

Ludwig Robert was born in Berlin as Liepmann Levin, into a well-off Jewish family,[1] a brother of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense. He wrote plays, including the tragedy Die Macht der Verhältnisse (1819) which deals with the position of Jews in society:

Ludwig Robert was the first German author to write Jewish material that dealt with a biblical subject.

— Ezra Mendelsohn, "Dramatic History: Reflections on a Biblical Play by Ludwig Robert"

He died, aged 53, in Baden-Baden.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Garland, Henry; Garland, Mary, eds. (1997). "Ludwig Robert". The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-815896-7. OCLC 36135866 – via Oxford Reference.


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