Hannah Arendt

Of Jewish descent, she was born in Hanover in 1906 and died in the United States in 1976. She studied philosophy, theology, and ancient Greek philology, and completed her dissertation in Heidelberg under the supervision of Karl Jaspers (1928). With the rise of the Nazis to power, she left Germany and eventually settled in New York (1941). In 1963, she began teaching as a professor at the University of Chicago and in 1968 at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her significant works include "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951), "On Revolution" (1963), "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1964), among others.