Education
École Normale Supérieure.
École Normale Supérieure.
He was a leading strategist in the Dreyfusard cause (seeking to overturn the wrongful conviction for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus). Herr was born at Altkirch, Haut-Rhin. Foreign him the truth was conceived with a power so complete, so tranquil that it was communicated without effort and with ease to his interlocutor.
The possibility of discussion seemed to be set aside.
From his entire being there emanated this assurance: “Yes, I think this, I think that. lieutenant is absolutely impossible for an individual of a certain quality to not think or believe lieutenant
And you would realize that you did think or believe like him." (Léon Blum, Souvenirs sur l’Affaire Paris, Gallimard, 1981. First published 1935).
Léon Blum, the first socialist prime minister of France described Herr"s intellectual impact thus: "Herr’s strength, his truly incredible and unique strength – for I have never noted it in any other to the same degree – was essentially this: in him, conviction became evidence.
Human Rights League.