Hannah Arendt

Variant names
Dates:
Active 1941
Active 1994
Birth 1906
Birth 1906-10-14
Death 1975-12-04
Gender:
Female
Americans
German, French, English, French, English, German,

Biographical notes:

Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 and died in 1975.

From the description of Letter, 1965, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122491902

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born philosopher and political scientist who taught at several American universities and whose books developed a broad readership.

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) was an Austrian-born novelist who emigrated to North America in 1940. Among his works are The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.

From the description of Hannah Arendt papers concerning Hermann Broch, 1942-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83751834

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born philosopher and political scientist who taught at several American universities and whose books developed a broad readership.

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) was an Austrian-born novelist who emigrated to North America in 1940. Among his works are The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.

From the description of Hannah Arendt papers concerning Hermann Broch, 1942-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148246

Author, educator, and political philosopher. Born Johanna Cohn Arendt in 1906; married Heinrich Blücher (after moving to the U.S. the couple primarily used the spelling Bluecher) in 1940 and used her married name Hannah Arendt Blücher for domestic identification.

From the description of Hannah Arendt papers, 1898-1977 (bulk 1948-1977). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981094

Biographical Note

1906, Oct. 14 Born, Hannover, Germany 1928 Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany 1929 Published Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (Berlin: Springer Verlag. 90 pp.) Married Günther Stern (divorced 1937) 1933 Moved to Paris, France 1935 1939 Secretary general, Youth Aliyah, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Paris, France 1938 1939 Austria Republic of Austria Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Sokol South Omaha Czechoslovak Museum Czechoslovakian National Cemetery Czechoslovakian Legation Building Czechoslovakia Cemetery Czechoslovakian National Cemetery Special agent for rescue of Jewish children from Austria and Czechoslovakia 1940 Gurs, France Gurs Interned in concentration camp, Gurs, France Married Heinrich Blücher (died 1970) 1941 Emigrated with her husband to the United States 1941 1945 Journalist 1944 1946 Research director, Conference on Jewish Relations 1946 1948 Chief editor, Schocken Books 1949 1952 Executive director, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction 1951 United States United States Became a United States citizen Published The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace. 477 pp.) 1952 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1953 Delivered Christian Gauss lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1954 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant 1955 Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 1956 Delivered Walgreen Foundation lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1957 Published Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess (London: Published for the Leo Baeck Institute by the East and West Library. 222 pp.); translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston 1958 Published The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 332 pp.) 1959 Visiting professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1960 Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1961 Evanston, Ill. Evanston Visiting professor of humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Published Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press. 246 pp.) 1961 1962 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 1963 Published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press. 275 pp.) Published On Revolution (New York: Viking Press. 343 pp.) 1963 1975 Professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1967 Received Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 1967 1975 University professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. 1968 Published Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 272 pp.) 1969 Awarded Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1969 1975 Associate Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1970 Published On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 106 pp.) 1972 Published Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 240 pp.) 1972 1975 Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1973 1974 Delivered Gifford lectures, University of Aberdeen, nAberdeen, Scotland 1975 Awarded Sonning Prize in Denmark 1975, Dec. 4 Died, New York, N.Y. 1978 Posthumous publication of The Jew as Pariah, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove Press. 288 pp.) Posthumous publication of The Life of the Mind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2 vols.) 1982 Posthumous publication of Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, edited with an interpretive essay by Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 174 pp.) 1994 Posthumous publication of Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954, edited by Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 458 pp.) 1996 Posthumous publication of Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 233 pp.) Publication of Hannah Arendt/Heinrich Blücher: Briefe 1936-1968, edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler (Munich: Piper. 596 pp.); translated into English by Peter Constantine and published in 2000 as Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 (N.Y.: Harcourt. 459 pp.)

From the guide to the Hannah Arendt Papers, 1898-1977, (bulk 1948-1977), (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Austrian literature
  • Authors, Austrian
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jews
  • National socialism
  • Philosophy
  • Political science
  • Political scientists
  • Totalitarianism
  • War crime trials
  • War crime trials
  • Zionism
  • Education, Higher
  • War crime trials

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  • Authors
  • Educators
  • Philosophers
  • College teachers

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  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
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  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Jerusalem (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
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  • IL, US
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  • NY, US
  • 23, RU

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