Paul Ludwig Landsberg

Paul Ludwig Landsberg
Born 3 December 1901
Died 2 April 1944 (aged 42)
Nationality German
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy

Paul Ludwig Landsberg (3 December 1901 – 2 April 1944) was a German-Jewish philosopher.

The son of Ernst Landsberg, Landsberg was born into a wealthy Jewish family. He studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg and University of Cologne. He emigrated to France after the Machtergreifung in 1933, and was later engaged in the French Resistance. He was arrested in 1943, and eventually deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he died in April 1944.

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