Landau, Marianne, 1886-1964

Marianne Landau, born in Berlin, 1886, was the daughter of Paul Ehrlich, the 1908 Nobel Prize laureate for work in chemo- and immunotherapy and developer of the drug Salvasan, instrumental in treating veneral disease. The Landau family escaped Nazi Germany and formed new homes in the U.S. and England, where they pursued academic careers. A very energetic and somewhat opinionated lady, Mrs. Landau never tired in keeping alive her father's memory and legacy, as well as to promote the research work of the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Beyond that, she doggedly pursued her legal claims against Germany for lost property (her mother-in-law's) and financial compensation (her own and her late husband's, Edmund, a well-known mathematician), constantly changing her lawyers and creating dissension in her own family. Marianne Landau died in Zurich in 1964.

From the guide to the Marianne Landau Collection, 1886-1966, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives)