Dr. Emil Ludwig, the famous author, celebrates to-day his 50th. birthday. He was born in Breslau, his father, Professor Hermann Cohn, being a famous oculist. He was baptised as a boy by his father, as Emil Ludwig. About 10 years ago, however, he officially left the Christian Church, and since then he has been taking a close interest in Jewish affairs, and also in the Zionist movement. He visited Palestine recently and lectured at the Hebrew University. He has several times declared of late that he considers himself a member of the Jewish Community.
Ludwig’s books have been translated into many languages, his biographies being particularly popular, like his “Goethe”, “Napoleon”, “Wilhelm II.”, “Bismarck”, and “The Son of Man”, a life of Jesus of Nazareth. His “July 14”, which deals with the origins of the war, was published in 1929, and sold 125,000 copies in Germany alone.
A new Ludwig play “Versailles” has just been produced at the Bremen Theatre. It deals with the framing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles.
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