Curated category
Jewish philosophers
- Karl MarxOn the 14th of March 1883, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, Friedrich Engels left Karl Marx alone in his armchair for scarcely two minutes.
- Lev VygotskyLev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on the 17th of November 1896 in Orsha, a town within the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Baruch SpinozaOn the 24th of November 1632, a boy named Baruch Espinoza was born into a house on the Houtgracht canal. This street sat on an artificial island called the…
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July 1898 in Berlin. His family belonged to the German upper-middle class and identified as Jewish.
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
- Martin BuberMartin Buber was born on the 8th of February 1878 in Vienna to an Orthodox Jewish family. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved to…
- Ludwig von MisesLudwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was born on the 29th of September 1881 in Lemberg. This city now bears the name Lviv and sits within Ukraine today.
- Georg SimmelGeorg Simmel entered the world on the 1st of March 1858 in Berlin, Germany. He was the youngest child among seven siblings born to an assimilated Jewish…
- Viktor FranklViktor Emil Frankl was born on the 26th of March 1905 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew up as the middle child of three to Gabriel…
- Hans JonasHans Jonas was born in the German city of Mönchengladbach on the 10th of May 1903. He grew up within a Jewish family during a time when European society was…
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
- Rosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was shot in the head, her body weighted with stones and dropped into a Berlin canal. It was the night of the 15th of January 1919, and she had…
- Erich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main. He grew up as the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm.
- Niels BohrOn the 7th of October 1885, Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He grew up as the second of three children to Christian Bohr and Ellen…
- Semyon FrankSemyon Lyudvigovich Frank was born in Russia on the 28th of January 1877. He entered the world within a Jewish family in Moscow.
- A. J. AyerAlfred Jules Ayer entered the world on the 29th of October 1910 in St John's Wood, a district in north west London. His parents were wealthy continental…
- Lev ShestovYeguda Lev Shvartsman was born in Kiev during the year 1866. He later adopted the name Lev Shestov for his philosophical career.
- Jean WahlJean Wahl entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris during a period when French philosophy was dominated by rigid academic traditions.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
- George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…
- Eric GutkindEric Gutkind entered the world on the 9th of February 1877 in Berlin. His parents were Hermann Gutkind and Elise Weinberg, who lived until 1942.