Hannah Arendt Timeline
A brief chronology of the key events in the life and career of political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
-
1906, Oct. 14
Born, Hannover, Germany.
Hannah Arendt, with her mother, Martha Arendt Beerwald, 1912. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust. -
1928
Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
-
1929
Published Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (Berlin: Springer Verlag).
Married Günther Stern (divorced 1937).
Günther Stern and Hannah Arendt, ca. 1929. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust. -
1933
Moved to Paris, France.
-
1935-1939
Secretary general, Youth Aliyah, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Paris, France.
-
1938-1939
Special agent for rescue of Jewish children from Austria and Czechoslovakia.
-
1940
Married Heinrich Blücher (died 1970).
Sent to an internment camp, Gurs, France.
Hannah and Heinrich Blücher, New York, ca. 1950. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust. -
1941
Emigrated with her husband to the United States, and settled in New York, N. Y.
-
1941-1945
Journalist.
-
1944-1946
Research director, Conference on Jewish Relations.
-
1946-1948
Chief editor, Schocken Books.
-
1949-1952
Executive director, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
-
1951
Published The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace).
Became a United States citizen.
-
1952
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
-
1953
Delivered Christian Gauss lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
-
1954
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant.
-
1955
Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley.
Hannah Arendt lecturing in Germany, 1955. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust. -
1956
Delivered Walgreen Foundation Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
-
1957
Published Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston (London: Published for the Leo Baeck Institute by the East and West Library).
-
1958
Published The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
-
1959
Visiting professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
-
1960
Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
-
1961
Visiting professor of humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Published Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press).
-
1961-1962
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
-
1963
Published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press).
Eichmann in Jerusalem, typescripts for the book and the version published in the New Yorker, 1963
Published On Revolution (New York: Viking Press).
On Revolution (New York: Viking Press)
-
1963-1975
Professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
-
1967
Received Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
-
1967-1975
University professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
-
1968
Published Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World).
-
1969
Awarded Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
-
1969-1975
Associate Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
-
1970
Published On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World).
-
1972
Published Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
-
1972-1975
Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
-
1973-1974
Delivered Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.
-
1975
Awarded Sonning Prize in Denmark.
-
1975, Dec. 4
Died, New York, N. Y.
Hannah Arendt, just prior to her death in 1975. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust. -
1978
Posthumous publication of The Jew as Pariah, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove Press).
Posthumous publication of The Life of the Mind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
-
1982
Posthumous publication of Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, edited with an interpretive essay by Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Kant lectures delivered at the New School for Social Research, 1970
-
1994
Posthumous publication of Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954, edited by Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.).
-
1996
Posthumous publication of Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Publication of Hannah Arendt/Heinrich Blücher: Briefe 1936-1968, edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler (Munich: Piper. 596 pp.); translated into English by Peter Constantine and published in 2000 as Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 (New York: Harcourt. 459 pp.)