Wilhelm Herzog was a German

Germany

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 historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist.

Life

He studied economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, Germanistics and history of art

History of art

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 in Berlin. After publishing works about Lichtenstein

Lichtenstein, Germany

Lichtenstein is a town in the Zwickau district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 11 km northeast of Zwickau, and 22 km southwest of Chemnitz.-See also:...

 (1905) and Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...

 (1907), he became the editor of the literary magazine Pan

Pan (magazine)

Pan was an arts and literary magazine, published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe. The magazine was revived by Paul Cassirer in 1910, published by his Pan-Presse....

. From 1914 to 1915 and from 1918 to 1929 he wrote for the Forum, a journal advocating global peace. He was also the publisher of the daily newspaper Die Republik from 1918 to 1919.

Between 1929 and 1933, he wrote Die Affäre Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Affair

Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...

), Der Kampf einer Republik, and Panama. Die Affäre Dreyfus was adapted to English as the 1931 film Dreyfus

Dreyfus (1931 film)

Dreyfus is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film Dreyfus.-Cast:*Cedric Hardwicke - Capt. Alfred Dreyfus*Charles Carson - Col. Picquart...

and as a play by the theatre critic James Agate

James Agate

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, having a short run in London as "I Accuse!", in 1937. In 1947 His work "From Dreyfus to Petain: the Struggle of a Republic" was copyrighted.

His main work was an 4 tome encyclopedia, Große Gestalten der Geschichte (Great Figures of History), conceived in the tradition of Diderot's Encyclopédie.

From 1915 to 1921 he was married to German film actress Erna Morena

Erna Morena

Erna Morena was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951.-Selected filmography:* Algol * The Indian Tomb * Journey Into the Night...

(1885-1962) and had one daughter with her.

Works

• Rund um den Staatsanwalt (1923)
• Die Affäre Dreyfus (1928, 1929)
• Der Kampf einer Republik (1933)
• Panama (1931, changed in 1950)
• Hymnen und Pamphlete (1939)
• Kritische Enzyklopädie (1949)

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