Gabriel Marcel
1889 – 1973 · aged 84
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
- Born
- 7 Dec 1889 · 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- 8 Oct 1973 · 7th arrondissement of Paris
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 7 Dec 1889BornBorn in 8th arrondissement of Paris
- 1937AwardPrix Brieux
- 1948AwardGrand prix de littérature de l'Académie française
- 1955 – 1973RolePresident
- 1958AwardGrand prix national des Lettres
- 1964AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
- 1968AwardGrand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris
- 1969AwardErasmus Prize
- 8 Oct 1973DiedDied in 7th arrondissement of Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1889 – 1973).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
Biography
Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term philosophy of existence or neo-Socrateanism to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel.
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