LC control no. | n 79081320 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3521.A77 |
Personal name heading | Kaufmann, Walter, 1921-1980 |
Variant(s) | Kaufmann, Walter Arnold |
Birth date | 1921-07-01 |
Death date | 1980-09-04 |
Place of birth | Freiburg (Germany) |
Place of death | Princeton (N.J.) |
Field of activity | Education Philosophy Translations |
Affiliation | Princeton University |
Profession or occupation | Philosophy teachers Translators Philosophers |
Found in | His Nietzsche, 1950. Existentialism, 1989: CIP t.p. (Walter Kaufmann) Goethe, J.W.v. Goethe's Faust, 1989, c1961: CIP t.p. (Walter Kaufmann) data sheet (d. 1980) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), July 27, 2006 (Walter Kaufmann; b. July 1, 1921, Freiburg, Germany; d. 1980, Princeton, N.J.; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1947; Princeton University, professor of philosophy, 1962-80; Stuart Professor of Philosophy, 1979-80) OCLC, Nov. 28, 2016 (hdg.: Kaufmann, Walter Arnold ; usage: Walter Kaufmann) Wikipedia, Nov. 28, 2016 (Walter Kaufmann ; Walter Arnold Kaufmann ; b. July 1, 1921 in Freiburg, Germany ; d. September 4, 1980 in Princeton, New Jersey ; was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a professor at Princeton University ; He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published a translation of Goethe's Faust) |
Associated language | eng ger |