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Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12).

Photo right with Gandhiin 1931.

In 1928 he and Hungarian scholar, philosopher and natural living experimenter Edmund Bordeaux Szekely founded the International Biogenic Society to promote and expand on their ideas of the integration of mind, body and spirit and the virtues of a natural, simple, vegetarian lifestyle.

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(The Biogenic Society was continued by Szekely's widow after his death in 1979, but it is not known for how long)

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In 1886 Rolland, still a student, read Tolstoy's 'What then must we do?' - at the beginning of Tolstoy's change from being a traditional aristocrat, to working with the peasants, and being vegetarian.

Rolland wrote to him and was surprised to receive a lengthy reply.

In 1889 he went to Rome, where he met Malvida von Meysenburg, who was a friend of Richard Wagner and Frei