Oscar Levy

Oscar Ludwig Levy ( born March 28, 1867 in Stargard, Pomerania, † August 13, 1946 in Oxford, United Kingdom ) was a German - British physician, philosopher and Nietzsche researchers.

Life

Oscar Levy was born into 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 producer in Berlin and married to Josephine Levy -Rathenau. Oscar lived from 1892 in the UK and was the editor of 1909 published until 1913, 18 -volume English edition of Nietzsche. In 1921 he was recognized as one of the "former alien enemies" again, then lived in Germany, France and Switzerland and from 1938 back in England.

Levy was, inter alia, a friend of Heinrich Mann. His daughter Maud (1909-2007) married in 1947 the music antiquarian Albert Rosenthal, the two took care of the work edition Oscar Levy and also to the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria.

Writings (selection )

  • The nineteenth century (Dresden 1904)
  • The German and the European: a dialogue (London 1915)
  • Nietzsche understood. Essays from exile 1913-1937
  • The Idiocy of Idealism (London 1940)
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