Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch was born on July 8, 1885 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany as Ernst Simon Bloch. He was married to Karola Piotrkowska, Linda Oppenheimer and Else von Stritzky. He died on August 4, 1977 in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.