Ferdinand Lion (11 June 1883 – 21 January 1968) was a Swiss journalist and writer.[1][2]
Life
Born in Mulhouse, Lion studied history and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich and Heidelberg, got to know
André Gide during a stay in Paris and worked as a journalist during the First World War, among others for the Neuen Merkur. Since 1917 he became friends with
Thomas Mann, later also with
Alfred Döblin. After the end of the war he became
literary editor by
Ullstein Verlag in Berlin, employee of the Neue Rundschau and wrote
libretti, among others for
Eugen d'Albert and
Paul Hindemith. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, was editor of the magazine Maß und Wert[3] in 1937/1938, lived in France during the Second World War and returned to Zurich in 1946. In addition to fiction, Lion wrote literary, historical, and philosophical treatises, including Lebensquellen der deutschen Metaphysik (1960).
Geschichte biologisch gesehen.[4] Max Niehans, Zürich 1935
Romantik als deutsches Schicksal.[5]Rowohlt Verlag, Stuttgart/Hamburg 1947
Lebensquellen französischer Metaphysik.[6] (Translated from French by Ruth Gillischewski, with Hans Hermann Hagedorn as illustrator). Claassen & Goverts, Zürich 1949