Ludwig Börne

Ludwig Börne was born in 1786 in the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt under the name Juda Löw Baruch. After studying medicine and then political science in Berlin, Halle, Heidelberg and Giessen, where he received his doctorate, he became a police clerk in Frankfurt, a post he lost when the city revoked the rights granted to Jews. Baptised a Protestant in 1818, he then took his pen name and edited a liberal journal that was soon banned. Settled in Paris after 1830, he died there in 1837 and is buried at Père-Lachaise.

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• EssayBriefe aus ParisLudwig Börne · 1832not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain