Nobody has read much on him although his diaries are surviving completely as are many of his letters... another task for our board historians
Those readers who understand German, may be interested in reading the following biographic publication, published on the occasion of the unveiling of Ludwig´s equestrian statue in 1898:
"Ein Lebensbild von Ludwig IV. Grossherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein. Festschrift zur Feier der Enthüllung des Reiterdenkmals zu Darmstadt" , edited by Gebhard Zernin, Captain in the Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry. Darmstadt: Buchhandlung Grossherzoglichen Staatsverlags, 1898, 63 pp.