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        1. Louis de Wohl was a highly acclaimed novelist who wrote numerous best selling historical novels on lives of the saints, many being made into films.
        2. Louis de Wohl was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II.
        3. Born January 24, , in Berlin, as Ludwig von Wohl, he was a novelist, journalist, and film scriptwriter shortly before Hitler came to power.
        4. Wohl was born in Berlin to a poor Catholic family, with a Hungarian father and Austrian mother of Jewish descent.

          5. Louis de Wohl was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II..

          Louis de Wohl

          German–Hungarian writer and astrologer

          Louis de Wohl

          BornLajos Theodor Gaspar Adolf Wohl
          24 January 1903
          Berlin, German Empire
          Died2 June 1961(1961-06-02) (aged 58)
          Lucerne, Switzerland
          NationalityGerman, British

          Louis de Wohl (earlier Ludwig von Wohl, born Lajos Theodor Gaspar Adolf Wohl) was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II.

          Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible.

          Life

          Wohl was born in Berlin to a poor Catholic family, with a Hungarian father and Austrian mother of Jewish descent.[1] When he was only 17 years old, his mother pushed him into an apprenticeship to a banker, from which he was dismissed in 1924, at the age of 21.[2] In 1935, he emigrated to England due to his