Hannah Arendt was born on 14 October 1906 in Lindener Marktplatz 2, Hannover. A German-American political theorist and philosopher, Arendt was born into a Jewish family in Germany and studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. She fled the Nazis, spent years in France and emigrated to the United States in 1941. Her book The Origins of Totalitarianism examined Nazism and Stalinism, while The Human Condition analyzed labor, work and action. Her report on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem introduced the phrase the banality of evil, and caused fierce controversy. She taught at the University of Chicago and the New School in New York, and remains widely read on power, freedom and violence.
Before and after
- 2 July 1906Birth of Hans Bethe
- 20 July 1906Finland gives women the right to vote and stand for parliament
- 25 September 1906Birth of Dmitri Shostakovich
- 9 October 1906Birth of Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 14 October 1906Birth of Hannah Arendt
- 22 October 1906Death of Paul Cézanne
- 6 December 1906Birth of Leonid Brezhnev
- c. 1907Birth of Sergei Korolev
- 1907Construction of Palacio de Cibeles
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