Bloch, Ernst
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| Birthname | Ernst Simon Bloch | ||||
| born on | 8 July 1885 at 03:30 (= 03:30 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Ludwigshafen, Germany, 49n29, 8e26 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m8e26 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   16°03'   18°50 Asc. 08°07'
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Biography
German marxist philosopher, influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob Boehme. He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on the thesis that in a humanistic world where oppression and exploitation have been eliminated there will always be a truly revolutionary force. Bloch has been called the greatest of modern utopian thinkers.
Born in Ludwigshafen as the son of a Jewish railway regional director. After studying philosophy, he married Else von Stritzky, daughter of a Baltic brewer in 1913, who died in 1921. His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years. His third wife was Karola Piotrowska, a Polish architect, whom he married in 1934 in Vienna. When the Nazis came to power, they had to flee, first into Switzerland, then to Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and finally the USA. Bloch returned to the GDR in 1949 and obtained a chair in philosophy at Leipzig. When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, he did not return to the GDR, but went to Tübingen in West Germany, where he received an honorary chair in Philosophy. Bloch sympathized with German studend movement around the years 1967/1968 and formed a fatherly friendship with the student leader Rudi Dutschke (born 7 March 1940). He died in Tübingen.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Kantorowicz, Alfred (born 12 August 1899)
- friend relationship with Adorno, Theodor W. (born 11 September 1903)
- friend relationship with Brecht, Bertolt (born 10 February 1898)
- friend relationship with Dutschke, Rudi (born 7 March 1940). Notes: father - son type relationship
- friend relationship with Weill, Kurt (born 2 March 1900)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth record.
Previously this entry had 8:00 AM (rated A): Taeger IHL, personal statement by Carola Bloch to R. Stiehle.
Categories
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Philosopher
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
