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Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's fierce criticism of the Nazi Party—years before it assumed power— and being Jewish ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Following a brief period of internment in France, and a harrowing escape from Continental Europe, he sought asylum in the United States, where he died in 1958. Feuchtwanger is often praised for his efforts to expose the brutality of the Nazis and criticized for his failure to acknowledge the brutality of the rule of Joseph Stalin.〔W. von Sternburg, ''Lion Feuchtwanger'', p. 412ff〕 ==Early life and education== Feuchtwanger's ancestors originated from the Middle Franconian city of Feuchtwangen which, following a pogrom in 1555, expelled all its resident Jews. Some of the expellees subsequently settled in Fürth where they were called the Feuchtwangers, meaning those from Feuchtwangen.〔W. von Sternburg, ''Lion Feuchtwanger'', p. 40f〕 Feuchtwanger's grandfather Elkan moved to Munich in the middle of the 19th century.〔R. Jaretzky, ''Lion Feuchtwanger'', p. 9〕 Lion Feuchtwanger was born in 1884 to Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and his wife Johanna née Bodenheim. He was the oldest in a family of nine siblings of which two, Martin and Ludwig became authors; Ludwig's son is the London-based historian Edgar Feuchtwanger. Two of his sisters settled in Palestine following the rise of the Nazi Party, one was killed in a concentration camp, and one sister settled in New York City. Lion studied literature and philosophy in the universities in Munich and Berlin. He made his first attempt at writing while still a student, earning a literary award. In 1903 he joined the school leaving exam at the grammar school Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich). He then studied history, philosophy and German philology in Munich and Berlin. He received his PhD in 1907 in Francis Muncker on Heinrich Heine's ''The Rabbi of Bacharach''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lion Feuchtwanger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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