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Herbert Lüthy

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According to Wikipedia, Herbert Lüthy 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. He also wrote for Encounter. In 1958 he became Professor of Education and History at ETH Zurich. 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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