Franklin C. West Collection 1909-1997 bulk1930-1992

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Franklin C. West Collection 1909-1997 bulk1930-1992

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This collection is comprised of the historian Franklin C. West's research onEmil Ludwig and his works. It primarily includes an extensive amount of notes and articles assembled during West's research. In addition, there issome correspondence and drafts of articles.

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Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948

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Emil Ludwig was a friend of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel; he had contact with them in France at the beginning of their exile, and he likewise emigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and settled in California, where they continued their friendship with him. Ludwig had become a Swiss citizen in 1932, and he returned to live there after the war. Elga Ludwig was Emil's wife. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1939-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library)....

West, Franklin C.

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Franklin C. West is an American scholar whose research is focused on modern German history. He was born in 1934 in Portland, Oregon and is a professor emeritus in the department of history at Portland State University. Emil Ludwig was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1881. In the 1920s, he became well-known for his biographies, which combined fact, fiction and psychological analysis; these works earned him international fame, with his novels translated into twent...