Oscar Levy

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1867 – 1946

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Who was Oscar Levy?

Oscar Ludwig Levy was a German Jewish physician and writer, now known as a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works he first saw translated systematically into English. His was a paradoxical life, of self-exile and exile, and of writing on and against Judaism. He was influenced by the racialist theories of Arthur de Gobineau. He also admired Benjamin Disraeli, two of whose novels he translated into the German language.

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Born
Mar 28, 1867
Stargard SzczeciƄski
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Aug 13, 1946
Oxford

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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