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John Peter Nettl

Vienna, Austria

J. P. Nettl (1926–1968) was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of Rosa Luxemburg, which The New York Times described as a classic work that did full justice to her political activity, context, theoretical contributions, and personality.

He lived in England from 1936. After serving with British army intelligence during the Second World War, he studied at Oxford. He died in a plane crash in the United States in 1968.

“Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.”
― John Peter Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg

“I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908).”
― John Peter Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg

“Rosa reports the engagement of her niece in 1912 to a nice young man without a name. It may therefore be that the last descendants of the Luxemburg family are living somewhere in England.”
― John Peter Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg

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