 1867 - 1946 (79 years)
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| Name |
Oscar Ludwig Levy |
| Prefix |
Dr. |
| Born |
23 Mar 1867 |
Stargard, Pomerania, Prussia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
Oscar Levy (1867 - August 13, 1946) was a German-Jewish physician and writer, now known as a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works he first saw translated systematically into the English language. His was a paradoxical life, of self-exile and exile, and of writing on and (as often taken) against Judaism. He was influenced by the racist theories of Arthur de Gobineau. He also admired Benjamin Disraeli, two of whose novels he translated into the German language.
Born in Stargard in Pomerania, he studied medicine in Freiburg, qualifying in 1891. He left the German Empire in 1894, where his father was a banker in Wiesbaden, and lived in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
His 1903 venture was a periodical Notes for Good Europeans. He apparently discovered, or was more thoroughly converted to, Nietzsche a year or so later, via a patient. The 18-volume Nietzsche translation he oversaw appeared from 1909 to 1913. This large effort has later been criticised as less than scholarly. His collaborators were Francis Bickley, Paul V. Cohn, Thomas Common, William S. Haussman, J.M. Kennedy, Anthony Ludovici, Maximilian A. Mugge, Maude D. Petre, Horace B. Samuel, Herman Scheffauer, G.T. Wrench and Helen Zimmern. Ludovici became his most important follower. In general he found little British support, but A.R. Orage was an enthusiast and Levy found an outlet in The New Age.
Subsequently his life was complicated by having to leave the United Kingdom and his medical practice despite his support for the British side against the Central Powers when World War I broke out. He went back to the German Empire in 1915 and then to Switzerland. Back in the United Kingdom in 1920, he incautiously wrote for the eccentric George Pitt-Rivers in an inflammatory political pamphlet, and ended up being deported as an alien in 1921, in a high-profile case, under immigration technicalities. He then lived in the French Third Republic.
Eventually he returned to the United Kingdom; his daughter Maud lived in Oxford, having married the bookseller Albi Rosenthal. His grandson is television sports presenter Jim Rosenthal.
His papers were in 2004 deposited in the Nietzsche-Haus in Sils Maria. |
| Hebrew Birth |
16 Vea 5627 |
| Immigration |
1894 |
England |
| Hebrew Death |
16 Ab 5706 |
| Occupation |
Physician and writer |
| Residence |
Stargard, Pomerania, Prussia |
| Residence |
Oxford, England |
| Died |
13 Aug 1946 |
Oxford, England |
| Person ID |
I1029 |
Blank Family |
| Last Modified |
4 Jul 2011 |
| Father |
Moritz Levy, b. 11 Nov 1832, Zachan, Pomerania, Germany , d. 25 Mar 1905, Stargard, Pomerania, Prussia (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Ernestina Lewy, b. 25 Jun 1842, Stettin, Germany , d. 9 Jul 1893, Stargard, Pomerania, Prussia (Age 51 years) |
| Married |
19 Oct 1865 |
Stettin, Germany |
| Family ID |
F524 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Frieda Brauer, b. 1882, Hannover, Germany , d. 1960, Wiesbaden, Germany (Age 78 years) |
| Married |
Yes - date unknown |
| Children |
| | 1. Maud Ruth Levy, b. 22 Apr 1909, London, England , d. 18 Dec 2007, Oxford, England (Age 98 years) |
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| Last Modified |
15 Mar 2006 |
| Family ID |
F556 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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