Ignace Lepp
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Ignace Lepp (original name: John Robert Lepp) (October 26, 1908, Orajõe, Pärnu county, Estonia - May 29, 1966) was actually born in a ship in the Baltic Sea (since he was the son of the captain of a ship) and lived in it with his mother and brother until he was five years old. Living in France at the age of 15 he joined the communist party after reading "The Mother" of Maxim Gorki, novel which made a very big impression on him and led him to change his individualistic manners as he himself recalls in his autobiography "From Marx to Christ".
Lepp was an atheist and Marxist for many years and got to be in important positions in the party of which in later years became very much disapponited. He changed his views and converted to Roman Catholicism. He was ordained priest in 1941. He wrote many non-fiction books including ones about atheism and religion and Psychiatry since he was a Psychologist and Psycoanalist.
He wrote among other books: The Psychology of Friendship, The Psychology of Loving, The Authentic Existence, The Communication of the Existences.
