BALL, HUGO. — German writer, b. on 22 February 1866 in Pirmasens, d. on 14 September 1927 at S. Abbondio near Lugano. He was one of the founders of Dadaism, but the experience of the First World War brought him back into the Catholic Church. In 1919 he published in Bern the work Zur Kritik der deutschen Intelligenz, marked by an anti-Protestant tone. In 1923, the volume Byzantinisches Christentum testified to his definitive conversion. He was a contributor to the journal Hochland.
BBL.: P. Larson, Du dadaisme à l'ascétisme, H. B., in Etudes, 1935, i, pp. 611–22. Silvio Forlani