Ludwig Robert

Ludwig Robert was born in Berlin as Liepmann Levin, into a well-off Jewish family,^[1] a brother of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense. He wrote plays, including the tragedy Die Macht der Verhältnisse (1819) which deals with the position of Jews in society:

Ludwig Robert was the first German author to write Jewish material that dealt with a biblical subject.

— Ezra Mendelsohn, "Dramatic History: Reflections on a Biblical Play by Ludwig Robert"

He died, aged 53, in Baden-Baden.