She was naturalized as an American citizen in 1951. She again became a fugitive from the Nazis in 1941, when she and her husband immigrated to the United States.Īrendt settled in New York City and became research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations (1944–46), chief editor of Schocken Books (1946–48), and executive director (1949–52) of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., which sought to salvage Jewish writings dispersed by the Nazis. She married Heinrich Blücher, a philosophy professor, in 1940. In 1933, when Heidegger joined the Nazi Party and began implementing Nazi educational policies as rector of Freiburg, Arendt, who was Jewish, was forced to flee to Paris. At Marburg she began a romantic relationship with her teacher, Martin Heidegger, that lasted until 1928. Beginning in 1924 she studied philosophy at the University of Marburg, the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, and the University of Heidelberg she received a doctoral degree in philosophy at Heidelberg in 1928. Hannah Arendt, (born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany-died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.), German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.Īrendt grew up in Hannover, Germany, and in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).

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