Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Otto was born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim, Germany, and raised there, by his Jewish parents, Emma (née Eberstadt) and Bernard Kahn. His father had been among the refugees to the United States after the revolution of 1848 and had become an American citizen, but later returned to Germany. Kahn was educated in a gymnasium in Mannheim. Kahn's ambition was to be a musician, and he learned to play several instruments before he
David Kahn (writer) the "Cryptologia" journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at "Newsday" for several years. He also served as an editor at the "International Herald Tribune" in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the "New York Times Magazine" about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, "The Codebreakers". "The Codebreakers" comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient