Louis de Wohl | |
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Born | Lajos Theodor Gaspar Adolf Wohl 24 January 1903 Berlin, German Empire |
Died | 2 June 1961 Lucerne, Switzerland | (aged 58)
Nationality | German, British |
Louis de Wohl (earlier Ludwig von Wohl, born Lajos Theodor Gaspar Adolf Wohl) was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible.