Ludwig Marcuse

Ludwig Marcuse was born in Berlin in 1894. Immediately after the Reichstag fire he emigrated to the USA, became a US citizen in 1944 and after years of destitution he became professor for philosophy and German literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As a brilliant stylist he suffered the fate of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Philosophers saw him as a writer, and writers considered him to be a philosopher. After becoming an emeritus professor, he returned to Germany in 1963. He died in Munich in 1971.