- Wilhelm Herzog
Wilhelm Herzog (
January 12 1884 inBerlin -April 4 1960 ) was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, andpacifist .Life
He studied
economics ,Germanistics andhistory of art in Berlin. After publishing works about Lichtenstein (1905) andHeinrich von Kleist (1907), he became the editor of the literary magazine "Pan". From 1914 to 1915 and from 1918 to 1929 he wrote for the "Forum", a journal advocating global peace. He was also the publisher of the daily newspaper "Die Republik" from 1918 to 1919.Between 1929 and 1933, he wrote "Die Affäre Dreyfus" ("The
Dreyfus Affair "), "Der Kampf einer Republik", and "Panama". "Die Affäre Dreyfus" was adapted to English by the theatre criticJames Agate for a short run in London as "I Accuse!", in 1937.His main work was an 4 tome encyclopedia, "Große Gestalten der Geschichte" (Great Figures of History), conceived in the tradition of
Diderot 's "Encyclopédie".From 1915 to 1921 he was married to German film actress
Erna Morena (1885-1962) and had one daughter with her.Works
*"Rund um den Staatsanwalt" (1923)
*"Die Affäre Dreyfus" (1928, 1929)
*"Der Kampf einer Republik" (1933)
*"Panama" (1931, changed in 1950)
*"Hymnen und Pamphlete" (1939)
*"Kritische Enzyklopädie" (1949)External links
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