Ludwig Strauss archive

Arie Ludwig Strauss (1892–1953), born in Aachen was a literary scholar, author, poet and teacher. He studied philology in Berlin and Munich. After WWI he worked as independent author, as editor at the Welt Verlag in Berlin, and as drama advisor at the theater of Düsseldorf in 1925. Beginning in 1918 he associated with HaPoel HaTzair and worked as the editor of HaAvodah. Between 1929 and 1933 he taught German literature at the university of Aachen. He worked with Martin Buber, whom he had met in 1913, and married Buber's daughter Eva in 1925. He received his PhD at the university of Frankfurt with a dissertation on Hölderlin in 1928. In 1929 he received the qualification as professor, with an additional work on Hölderlin. Until the teaching prohibition by the Nazis in 1934 he taught at the university of Aachen, and was director of the German department. In 1935 he emigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Hasorea. From 1938 until 1949 he was teacher at the Youth Village in Ben Shemen. Then he moved to Jerusalem and became professor of comparative literature at Hebrew University. Besides research on literature, he also wrote poetry and short stories, in German and later in Hebrew. Read more