# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ladislaus-lob
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:41:18.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ladislaus-lob"
name: "Ladislaus Löb"
slug: "ladislaus-lob"
description: "Ladislaus Löb was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and professor emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974); a monograph, in German, on the nineteenth-century dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996); and Dealing with Satan: Rezső Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission (2008), in which he recounts his experiences an 11-year-old boy sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and freed as the result of a controversial deal that Rezső Kasztner brokered with Adolf Eichmann."
tagline: "Germany literature scholar (1933–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-05-08"
deathDate: "2021-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.670734666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاديسلاوس لوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
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    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b"
    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b"
    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b"
    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b"
    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_L%C3%B6b"
    title: "Ladislaus Löb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124872"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump