Herbert Lüthy (1918-2002) was a Swiss historian and journalist. His book ''France Against Herself'', published in the mid-1950s, criticized French
traditionalism.
Life
Born in
Basel, Herbert Lüthy attended school in
Glarus and
St. Gallen. He then studied at the universities of
Paris,
Geneva and
Zürich, gaining a PhD in history in 1942. He became a journalist, writing for the ''St. Galler Tagblatt'' during
World War II. From 1946 to 1958 he lived in
Paris, writing for
Melvin J. Lasky's magazine ''
Der Monat
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''. He also wrote for ''
Encounter''. In 1958 he became Professor of Education and History at
ETH Zurich
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. In 1971 he moved to the
University of Basel, retiring for health reasons in 1980. He died in Basel in 2002.
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Herbert Lüthy: Kurzbiographie
Works
;Books
* (tr. into
German) ''Essais'' by
Michel de Montaigne
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, Zurich:
Manesse Verlag, 1953
* ''Frankreichs Uhren Gehen Anders'' (French clocks tick differently), Zürich: Europa Verlag, 1954. Translated by
Eric Mosbacher as ''France against herself : a perceptive study of France's past, her politics, and her unending crises.'', New York: Praeger, 1955; published in England as ''The state of France; a study of contemporary France'', London: Secker & Warburg, 1955
* ''La Banque Protestante en France, de la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes à la Révolution'', Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N, 2 vols, 1959-1961
* ''Nach dem Untergang des Abendlandes; zeitkritische Essays''
* '' Le passé présent: combats d'idées de Calvin à Rousseau'', Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1965. Translated by
Salvator Attanasio as ''From Calvin to Rousseau; tradition and modernity in socio-political thought from the Reformation to the French Revolution'', 1970
* ''In Gegenwart der Geschichte. Historische Essays'', 1967
* ''Fahndung nach dem Dichter Bertolt Brecht'', 1972
;Articles
* "Die Vierte Republik" (The Fourth Republic), ''Der Monat'' 10 (July 1949), pp. 39–48
References
1918 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Swiss historians
Swiss male writers
20th-century male writers
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
20th-century Swiss journalists
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