Paul Rohrbach

Paul Rohrbach (1869-1956) was a German writer, concerned with "world politics." He was born at Irgen, Livonia. Between 1887 and 1896 he attended the universities of Dorpat, Berlin, and Strassburg, afterward he traveled extensively in Asia (especially China) and Africa, and in 1903-06 he was Royal Commissioner to southwest Africa. His writings include many books on political conditions in the countries visited by him, with much attention to the effects of German colonization and interests. His "Der deutsche Gedanke in der Welt" was translated into English by Edmund von Mach as "German World Policies" (1915), and "Der Krieg und die deutsche Politik" (1914) appeared in an English translation by P. H. Phillipson as "Germany's Isolation: An Exposition of the Economic Causes of the Great War" (1915). Most of the last-named book was written before the opening of the European war.

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