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Koestler, Arthur (1905–1983)
Political activist, anticommunist, Zionist, author of novels and popular science books.
Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 September 1905 to parents from the assimilated, prosperous Jewish bourgeoisie. He attended school in Budapest until 1919, when his family, fearing anti-Jewish disturbances, temporarily relocated to Vienna.
He remained there, attending a private school and then studying engineering at the Vienna Technische Hochschule.
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He joined a Jewish student society and fell under the spell of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Revisionist Zionism. He left the university in April 1926, intending to settle in Palestine. Koestler failed as a pioneer, surviving only with the help of his Revisionist friends. After a spell in Berlin in mid-1927, he fortuitously obtained a post as Middle East correspondent for the Ullstein newspaper chain.
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