Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger was a GermanJewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Feuchtwangers ancestors originated from the Middle Franconian city of Feuchtwangen which, following a pogrom in 1555, expelled all its resident Jews. Some of the expellees subsequently settled in Frth where they were called the Feuchtwangers, meaning those from Feuchtwangen. Feuchtwangers grandfather Elkan moved to Munich in the middle of the 19th century. Lion Feuchtwanger was born in 1884 to Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and his wife Johanna ne Bodenheim. He was the oldest in a family of nine siblings of which two, Martin and Ludwig became authors Ludwigs son is the Londonbased historian Edgar Feuchtwanger. Two of his sisters settled in Palestine following the rise of the Nazi Party, one was killed in a concentration camp, and one sister settled in New York City.

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