When and where was Eric Gutkind born?
Eric Gutkind entered the world on the 9th of February 1877 in Berlin. His parents were Hermann Gutkind and Elise Weinberg, who lived until 1942.
Questions about Eric Gutkind
Short answers, pulled from the story.
Who were the members of the pacifist-mystical circle that included Eric Gutkind?
Members of the group included Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, L. E. J. Brouwer, Henri Borel, Frederik van Eeden, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Oppenheimer, Walther Rathenau, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, and Rabindranath Tagore. The group met at different points over time to discuss ideas across disciplines with a shared focus combining mysticism with political pacifism.
What pseudonym did Eric Gutkind use for his 1910 book Siderische Geburt?
Eric Gutkind published Siderische Geburt: Seraphische Wanderung vom Tode der Welt zur Taufe der Tat under the pseudonym Volker in 1910. Large selections from that first book circulated only in manuscript form until they appeared in The Body of God decades later.
When did Albert Einstein write to Eric Gutkind about their differing views on God?
Albert Einstein responded to Eric Gutkind's book with a letter dated Princeton, the 3rd of January 1954. In that letter Einstein wrote that the word God is the product of human weakness.
Where and when did Eric Gutkind die?
Gutkind died in Chautauqua, New York, on the 26th of August 1965. His collected papers appeared posthumously as The Body of God edited by Lucie B. Gutkind and Henry LeRoy Finch in 1969.