Ferdinand Lion

Ferdinand Lion (11 June 1883 – 21 January 1968) was a Swiss journalist and writer.
Life.
Born in Mulhouse, Lion studied history and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich and Heidelberg, got to know André Gide during a stay in Paris and worked as a journalist during the First World War, among others for the "Neuen Merkur". Since 1917 he became friends with Thomas Mann, later also with Alfred Döblin. After the end of the war he became literary editor by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin, employee of the "Neue Rundschau" and wrote libretti, among others for Eugen d'Albert and Paul Hindemith. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, was editor of the magazine "Maß und Wert" in 1937/1938, lived in France during the Second World War and returned to Zurich in 1946. In addition to fiction, Lion wrote literary, historical, and philosophical treatises, including "Lebensquellen der deutschen Metaphysik" (1960).