Martin Buber
1878 – 1965 · aged 87
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
- Born
- 8 Feb 1878 · Vienna
- Died
- 13 Jun 1965 · Jerusalem
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- 8 Feb 1878BornBorn in Vienna
- 1953AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
- 1953AwardHonorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1958AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1958AwardGoethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
- 1958AwardIsrael Prize
- 1961AwardBialik Prize
- 1962AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Münster
- 1963AwardErasmus Prize
- 1964AwardHonorary doctor of the Heidelberg University
- 13 Jun 1965DiedDied in Jerusalem
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Major world events during their lifetime (1878 – 1965).
- 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
Biography
Martin Buber (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈbuːbɐ] ; Hebrew: מרטין בובר; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.
Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. He produced writings about Zionism and worked with various bodies within the Zionist movement extensively over a nearly 50-year period spanning his time in Europe and the Near East. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times, and the Nobel Peace Prize seven times.
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