Kullmann, Eugen, 1915-2002

Eugen Kullmann was born in Erlenbach, Germany on March 20, 1915. Beginning in 1934 he studied at a rabbinical institution as well as at the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt am Main. Later that year he went to the University of Basel in Switzerland, where he studied philosophy, philology and Biblical and ancient languages, among other subjects. In 1941 he received his doctorate. In Basel he met Paula Philippson and may have known Hedwig Joël.

In 1946 Eugen Kullmann joined his parents in the United States. From 1947-1968 he taught courses in philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City and was also a visiting professor at the Academy of Higher Jewish Learning (later the Academy for Jewish Religion), Bard College, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Smith College. In 1968 he became professor of religion at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In 1984 he retired from teaching; he died on June 24, 2002.

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