Arendt, Hannah
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Birthname | Johanna Arendt | ||||
born on | 14 October 1906 at 21:15 (= 9:15 PM ) | ||||
Place | Hannover, Germany, 52n24, 9e44 | ||||
Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
German-American philosopher , political thinker and writer. She died in New York, NY on December 4, 1975 of an apparent heart attack. Described as one of the 20th century's most brilliant and original political thinkers, she wrote analyses of totalitarianism and democracy, social problems, revolution, political image-making, and, ultimately, the human mind.
Fleeing to Paris when Hitler began his rise to power in 1933, she became a social worker for Youth Aliyah, a relief agency that found homes in Palestine for orphaned and homeless children of Europe. She and her second husband emigrated to the United States in 1941 and was naturalized in 1950. She incorporated her observations of Hitler and the Nazis in her first major US publication, "The Origins of Totalitarianism." As she grew older, her focus shifted toward the analysis of thought--thinking, willing and judging. Her work, incomplete at the time of her death, was published posthumously as "The Life of the Mind"
She earned her BA in 1924 at Koenigsberg University and earned her Ph.D in philosophy in 1928, at age 22, studying under Karl Jaspers at the University of Heidelberg. She wrote in German and in English, publishing her first, "Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin" in 1929 and "Sechs Essays" in 1948, translating Kafka's diaries in 1949. Among her well-known books are "The Human Condition, in 1958, "Between Past and Future" 1961, and "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" in 1963. Arendt was the recipient of many awards, including a 1954 award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954 and an Emerson-Thoreau Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969, as well as several honorary degrees.
She married Gunther Stern in 1929; in 1940, she married Heinrich Bluecher, a philosophy professor who died in 1970.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Strauss, Leo (born 20 September 1899)
- friend relationship with Jonas, Hans (born 10 May 1903)
- friend relationship with Neumann, Erich (born 23 January 1905)
- spouse relationship with Anders, Günther (born 12 July 1902). Notes: 1929-1937
- spouse relationship with Blücher, Heinrich (born 29 January 1899). Notes: 1940-1970
- compare to chart of Mulisch, Harry (born 29 July 1927). Notes: Both Jews reported on the Eichman trial
- role played of/by Sukowa, Barbara (born 2 February 1950). Notes: 2012 film "Hannah Arendt"
Events
- Family : Change residence 1933 (fled to Paris)
- Relationship : Marriage 1940 (2nd marriage)
- Family : Change residence 1940 (emigrated to U.S.)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1949 (Kafka's Diaries)
- Work : Prize 1954 (National Institute of Arts and Letters award)
- Work : Prize 1969 (Emerson-Thoreau Award)
- Death of Mate 1970
Source Notes
Taeger Lexikon 4 quotes Arno Muller citing birth certificate in vol. 3 of "Astro-Forschungsdaten" She was born in Linden, Hannover.
Sy Scholfield quotes same data from "Hannah Arendt und Heinrich Blücher: ein deutsch-jüdisches Gespräch" by Bernd Neumann (Rowohlt, 1998), p. 57: "Das Kind Johanna, das dann später unter der jüdischen Fassung seines Vornamens berühmt werden sollte, wurde geboren am 14. Oktober 1906 um 9 1/4 Uhr abends, an einem Sonntage."
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive (Ph.D.)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (two)
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy
- Vocation : Writers : Translator
- Notable : Awards : Other Awards
- 1906 births
- Birthday 14 October
- Birthplace Hannover, GER
- Sun 20 Libra
- Moon 9 Virgo
- Asc 8 Cancer
- 1975 deaths
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy
- Vocation : Writers : Translator
- Notable : Awards : Other Awards