作者  (1881年1月25日～1948年9月17日)

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生于1881年，死于1948年。德国作家，以撰写通俗传记而享有国际声誉。所写传记强调人物个性，被称为“新传记派”。代表作品有《拿破仑》、《俾斯麦》、《歌德》、《人之子》、《林肯》、《兴登堡》、《克娄巴特拉：一个女王的故事》、《罗斯福：命运和权利的研究》、《三幅画像：希特勒、墨索里尼、斯大林》、《贝多芬》、《奥瑟罗》等

埃米尔·路德维希（Emil Ludwig、1881年1月25日－1948年9月17日）是德国－瑞士作家，以名人传记和历史著作闻名于世。

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外部链接

• Ludwig's interview with Stalin
• Omitted section of Ludwig's interview with Stalin
• Talks with Mussolini
• Guide to the Papers of Emil Ludwig (1881-1948) at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.

 

Emil Ludwig (25 January 1881 – 17 September 1948) was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats."

Biography

Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Born into a Jewish family, he was raised as a non-Jew but was not baptized. “Many persons have become Jews since Hitler," he said. "I have been a Jew since the murder of Walther Rathenau [in 1922], from which date I have emphasized that I am a Jew.” Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novellas, also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940.

At the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe's and Schiller's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943/44. He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in 1948, in Moscia, near Ascona. In 1944, Ludwig wrote a letter to The New York Times where he urged that "Hitler’s fanaticism against the Jews could be exploited by the Allies. The Three Powers should send a proclamation to the German people through leaflets and to the German Government through neutral countries; threatening that further murdering of Jews would involve terrible retaliation after victory. This would drive a wedge into the already existing dissension of the generals and the Nazis, and also between ultra-Nazis and other Germans.”

During the 1920s, he achieved international fame for his popular biographies which combined historical fact and fiction with psychological analysis. After his biography of Goethe was published in 1920, he wrote several similar biographies, including one about Bismarck (1922–24) and another about Jesus (1928). As Ludwig's biographies were popular outside of Germany and were widely translated, he was one of the fortunate émigrés who had an income while living in the United States. His writings were considered particularly dangerous by Goebbels, who mentioned him in his journal.

Ludwig interviewed Benito Mussolini and on 1 December 1929 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. His interview with the founder of the Republic of Turkey appeared in Wiener Freie Presse in March 1930, addressing issues of religion and music. He also interviewed Joseph Stalin in Moscow on 13 December 1931. An excerpt from this interview is included in Stalin's book on Lenin. Ludwig describes this interview in his biography of Stalin.

Ludwig's extended interviews with T.G. Masaryk, founder and longtime president of Czechoslovakia, appeared as Defender of Democracy in 1936.

French and English editions of works by Ludwig

The following French editions of Emil Ludwig's books were published in the period 1926–1940: Biographies: Goethe (3 volumes), Napoléon, Bismarck, Trois Titans, Lincoln, Le Fils de l'Homme, Le Nil (2 volumes). Political works: Guillaume II, Juillet 1914, Versailles, Hindenburg, Roosevelt, Barbares et Musiciens, La Conquête morale de l'Allemagne, Entretiens avec Mussolini, La Nouvelle Sainte-Alliance.

Biographies of Goethe, Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern are available in English from G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York and London).

Emil Ludwig was – and remains – renowned for a popular biography of Napoleon published in English in 1926, just after it was published in Germany in the original German, while Ludwig was still living there. This book is still quite readable today – Ludwig has a rare gift of evoking a vanished era in straightforward plain prose. The book has a rare quality of immediacy, as if what Ludwig writes of were almost current history. Napoleon was published by a New York publishing house renowned for titles of intellectual and scholarly interest in its day, Boni & Liveright.

• Leaders of Europe, Ivor Nicholson and Watson Ltd. (1934), translated by James Murphy
• Bismarck
• Cleopatra
• Diana
• Genius and Character
• Gifts of Life
• Goethe
• Hindenburg William Heinemann Ltd. (1935), translated by Eden and Cedar Paul
• July '14
• Wilhelm Hohenzollern
• Nine Etched from Life
• Lincoln
• Napoleon
• On Mediterranean Shores
• The Practical Wisdom of Goethe
• Schliemann
• Son of Man (Jesus)
• Talks with Mussolini
• Three Titans
• The Davos Murder
• Defender of Democracy
• Masaryk of Czechoslovakia
• The Nile: The Life-Story of a River, The Viking Press (1937), translated by Mary H. Lindsay
• Mackenzie King. A Portrait Sketch (1944)
• Rembrandts Schicksal (1923)
• Three Titans: Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, Beethoven. (1930)