By F. Guzzardi Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau , now part of Poland . Born into a Jewish family, he was raised as a non-Jew but was not baptized. “Many persons have become Jews since Hitler ," he said. "I have been a Jew since the murder of Walther Rathenau [in 1922], from which date I have emphasized that I am a Jew.” Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novellas, also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland , but, during World War I , he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul . He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940. At the end of the Second World War , he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe 's and Schiller 's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943/44. He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in 1948, in Mo...