1926 · [Biarritz]
by Foerster, F.W. [Friedrich Wilhelm ]
[Biarritz], 1926. Near fine, folded.. [1 pp.]. 8 x 5 inches. German academic & philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869-1966) spent his early career as a lecturer at a variety of institutions, including the University of Zurich, the University of Vienna, and the University of Munich. However at the onset of World War I, Foerster's open opposition to Germany's ruling class and German militariam had resulted in threats on his life and he resigned his teaching post in Germany in 1922 and fled Germany, settling in France. His books were burned in Germn in 1933 and he fled France around 1940, when the Nazis and Gestapo pursued him during their occupation (truncated)