Walter Kaufmann
Philosopher, Author
1921 – 1980
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Who was Walter Kaufmann?
Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University.
He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel. Kaufmann also published a translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust.
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- Born
- Jul 1, 1921
Freiburg im Breisgau - Also known as
- Walter Arnold Kaufmann
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Williams College
- Harvard University
- Died
- Sep 4, 1980
Princeton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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