Herbert Lüthy

Herbert Lüthy (January 15, 1918 - November 16, 2002) was a Swiss historian and journalist.

[1] Born in Basel, Herbert Lüthy attended school in Glarus and St. Gallen.

He then studied at the universities of Paris, Geneva and Zürich, gaining a PhD in history in 1942.

He became a journalist, writing for the St. Galler Tagblatt during World War II.

From 1946 to 1958 he lived in Paris, writing for Melvin J. Lasky's magazine Der Monat.