Ladislaus Löb
Ladislaus Löb (8 May 1933 – 2 October 2021[1]) was a Romanian-Swiss Germanist and Holocaust survivor. He was the Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He wrote From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974) and Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996).
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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 | Professor Emeritus of German, University of Sussex |
Löb is also known for having been a passenger, when he was 11 years old, on the Kastner train during the Holocaust.
Ladislaus Löb Media
Age eleven, on his arrival in Switzerland, December 1944
Page from the Kastner train passenger list, showing the entry for Ladislaus Löb
