Oscar Levy
Oscar Ludwig Levy (born March 28, 1867 in Stargard , Pomerania ; † August 13, 1946 in Oxford , Great Britain ) was a German-British doctor, philosopher and Nietzsche researcher.
Life
Oscar Levy came from a Jewish family. His father Moritz Levy (1832–1905) was a banker and merchant in Stargard; his younger brother Emil Elias Levy (1868–1944) continued the business, his brother Max Levy (1869–1932) was a manufacturer in Berlin and married to Josephine Levy-Rathenau . After completing his medical studies at the University of Freiburg i. Br. He lived in Great Britain from 1892 and was editor of the 18-volume English Nietzsche edition published from 1909 to 1913. In 1921 he was expelled as one of the "former alien enemies ", then lived in Germany, France and Switzerland and from 1938 back in England.
Levy was u. a. a friend of Heinrich Mann . His daughter Maud (1909–2007) married the music antiquarian Albrecht Rosenthal in 1947 , and they both took care of the edition of Oscar Levy's works and also of the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria .
Fonts (selection)
- The nineteenth century (Dresden 1904)
- The German and the European: a dialogue (London 1915)
- Understand Nietzsche. Essays from exile 1913–1937
- The Idiocy of Idealism (London 1940)
literature
- Leila Kais: "Le Nietzschéanisme, c'est moi". Oscar Levy and the introduction of Nietzsche to England. Parerga, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937262-93-2 .
- Sigrid Krämer: Rosenthal, Albi. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 78 ( digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
- Dieter G. Maier, Jürgen Nürnberger: Oscar and Max Levy. Europeans and "Nietzsche Apostles" - patriot and entrepreneur (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 152). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-064-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Oscar Levy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Oscar Levy in the German Digital Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Biography, for the publication of his "Collected Writings and Letters"
- Steffen Dietzsch: Good Europeans in times of National Socialism , in the Friday
- Steffen Dietzsch : Nansenpass One. Oscar Levy's ongoing exile , IABLIS Yearbook for European Trials 1st year 2002
- Friedrich Niewöhner: Against idealism as idiocy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolas Barker: Maud Rosenthal: Oscar Levy's "daughter-secretary" , The Independent , January 22, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levy, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levy, Oscar Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British philosopher and Nietzsche researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stargard in Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1946 |
| Place of death | Oxford , UK |