Ludwig Mayer (bookseller)
Ludwig Mayer, an Israeli bookseller, was born in Prenzlau to a family of Jewish wool merchants. After apprenticing as a bookseller he moved to Ottoman Palestine in 1908 to open the region's first modern book-store in Jerusalem. His shop was a fixture in Palestine, serving an illustrious clientele that included Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and David Ben Gurion. He died in Jerusalem in 1978.
