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Martin Heidegger (r.) and Hans-Georg Gadamer (l.) (1923)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is considered to be one of the most influential German philosophers of the 20th century. In 1923, he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Marburg, where....
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Edmund Husserl and His Son Gerhard (April 1929)
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. The founder of the school of philosophy called phenomenology, he anticipated central ideas in the emerging....
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Friedrich Meinecke (c. 1930)
Friedrich Meinecke (1862-1954) was the most prominent liberal German historian of his generation and the preeminent practitioner of Ideengeschichte [the history of ideas]. He was the editor....
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Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (c. 1930)
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1877-1946) was a Protestant theologian and the son of the founder....
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Max Born, Physicist (c. 1930)
Max Born (1882-1970) was a physicist and mathematician whose work was instrumental in the....
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The Five Nobel Prize Winners Nernst, Einstein, Planck, Millikan and von Laue (from left to right) (1931)
By 1931, cosmic ray research had become a primary arena for experimental physics and was receiving enormous attention in newspapers around the world. As the person who had introduced the term “cosmic....
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Hannah Arendt (c. 1963)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is regarded as one of the leading political philosophers of the 20th century. She was a student of Martin....
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