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Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 July 1892
- Died
- 26 September 1940
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Portbou
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Benjamin
- Father
- Emil Benjamin
- Spouse
- Dora Sophie Kellner
- Child
- Stefan Benjamin
- Sibling
- Georg Benjamin, Dora Benjamin
- Movement
- Marxism
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Occupation
- philosopher, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic, sociologist, art critic, literary historian, translator, librettist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia, German Reich
- Native language
- German
- described by source
- UbuWeb, Faces of Moscow, Pax Leksikon
- different from
- Walter Benjamin
- doctoral advisor
- Richard Herbertz
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Bern, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Freiburg
- hashtag
- WalterBenjamin
- influenced by
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Baudelaire, Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Gershom Scholem
- IPA transcription
- ˌvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- suicide
- name in native language
- Walter Benjamin
- notable work
- Theses on the Philosophy of History, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, One-way Street, The arcades project
- owner of
- Walter Benjamin's library
- place of burial
- Cementiri de Portbou
- pseudonym
- Benedix Schönflies, Detlev Holz
- relative
- William Stern, Gertrud Kolmar, Günther Anders, Leon Kellner, Hannah Arendt, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies
- significant event
- Nazi book burnings
- topic's main category
- Category:Walter Benjamin
- writing language
- German
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