Gustav Mayer
German Jewish historian and art collector looted by Nazis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gustav Mayer was a German journalist and historian with a particular focus on the Labour movement. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and lived the final years of his life in England. Life Gustav Mayer was born into a long-established Jewish mercantile family in Prenzlau, a small town in central northern Germany. The family had settled in Prentzlau in 1677, having previously lived in Oderberg. His upbringing combined traditional Jewish values and beliefs with a keen appreciation of German intellectual developments more generally. While growing up he acquired a deep knowledge of the German classics which would underpin his subsequent work. He studied Public Economics between 1890 and 1893, being particularly influenced by the ideas of the so-called academic socialists Gustav Schmoller and Adolph Wagner. He received his doctorate for work on Ferdinand Lassalle from Basel, for which he was supervised by . For the next few years he undertook various jobs and other activities, at one stage embarking on an apprenticeship as a book dealer.
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