Ludwig Robert

Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Robert (or Robert-Tornow; 16 December 1778 – 5 July 1832) was a German dramatist.

Life
Ludwig Robert was born in Berlin as Liepmann Levin, into a well-off Jewish family, 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

He died, aged 53, in Baden-Baden.