Ferdinand Lion

Ferdinand Lion (born June 11, 1883 in Mulhouse , Alsace ; † January 21, 1968 in Kilchberg , Canton of Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and writer .

Life

Lion studied history and philosophy in Strasbourg , Munich and Heidelberg , met André Gide during a stay in Paris and worked as a journalist during the First World War , including for the “Neuen Merkur”. With Thomas Mann since 1917 , and later friends with Alfred Döblin , after the end of the war he became a lecturer at Ullstein Verlag in Berlin , employee of the Neue Rundschau and wrote opera libretti for Eugen d'Albert and Paul Hindemith , among others . In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland , was editor of the magazine Maß und Wert in 1937/1938 , lived in France during the Second World War and returned to Zurich in 1946 . In addition to works of fiction, Lion wrote literary, historical and philosophical treatises, including sources of life in German metaphysics (1960).

History in biological terms . Max Niehans, Zurich 1935
Romanticism as German fate . Rowohlt, Stuttgart / Hamburg 1947
Sources of life in French metaphysics. (From the French by Ruth Gillischewski, set by Hans Hermann Hagedorn). Claassen & Goverts, Zurich 1949
Spirit and Politics in Europe. Scattered writings from 1915–1961 . Wallstein Verlag , ISBN 3-89244-141-3

Konrad Feilchenfeldt: Lion, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 641 f. ( Digitized version ).
Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
Lion, Ferdinand. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 63-71.