William Wertz

William F. Wertz, Jr. was born and raised in New Jersey in the USA. He received an academic scholarship to attend Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. While at Wesleyan he enrolled in the College of Letters. During the first semester of his sophomore year he studied abroad in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Cologne in then West Germany. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1967 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received a National Education and Defense Act Fellowship to study at Harvard University, but left Harvard before receiving a graduate degree. In 1971, he joined the political movement founded by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., because he agreed with LaRouche that world peace could only be established by rejecting supra-national forms of government, respecting national sovereignty, using anti-Malthusian American System methods of economic development and by a cultural renaissance. In 1976, he ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Washington State against Henry Jackson and in 1982 in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in California against Jerry Brown. He was also the West Coast Coordinator of the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC) from 1980-84. In 1984, he began to coordinate a project for the Schiller Institute to translate the works of the German poet Friedrich Schiller into English. He has since then been the editor and primary translator of four books of translations of the works of Schiller (Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom) These works include translations of the dramas Don Carlos, Wilhelm Tell, the Virgin of Orleans and Mary Stuart, numerous poems including the “Ode to Joy,” “Hope” and the “Cranes of Ibycus,” and such aesthetical writings as “On the Aesthetical Education of Man,” “Naïve and Sentimental Poetry,” "On the Sublime" and the “Kallias Letters.” He also translated and published many of the works of Nicolaus of Cusa, the father of the sovereign nation state and modern science (Toward a New Council of Florence: 'ON THE PEACE OF FAITH' and Other Works by Nicolaus of Cusa), several of which had never been translated into English before, including “On Conjectures,” “On Beryllus,” “On the Filiation of God,” “On Searching for God,” “On Equality” and “The Summit of Vision.” From 1992 to 2006, he was editor-in-chief of Fidelio the cultural and scientific journal of the Schiller Institute and President of the Schiller Institute from 1992 to 2019, at which point he resigned. He is co-author of The Four Powers by Lyndon LaRouche published in 2019 and the author of Beware the British East India Company! Towards an Alliance between the USA, Russia, China and India to Finally Defeat the British Empire published in 2023. He is married and has two sons and three grandchildren.