Ladislaus Löb
Ladislaus Löb | |
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Löb in 2003 | |
| Born | 8 May 1933 Cluj, Kingdom of Romania (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania) |
| Died | 2 October 2021 (aged 88) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Education | English and German, University of Zürich, 1953–1961 |
| Occupation(s) | Professor Emeritus of German, University of Sussex |
Ladislaus Löb (8 May 1933 – 2 October 2021) was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and professor emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974); a monograph, in German, on the nineteenth-century dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996); and Dealing with Satan: Rezső Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission (2008), in which he recounts his experiences an 11-year-old boy sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and freed as the result of a controversial deal that Rezső Kasztner (aka Rudolf Kastner) brokered with Adolf Eichmann.