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Apr 10, 2024 · Leo Strauss (born September 20, 1899, Kirchhain, Germany—died October 18, 1973, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.) was a German-born American political philosopher and interpreter of classical political theory. Strauss served in the German army during World War I. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (1921), he was a research ...
May 18, 2018 · Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century as well as its most extraordinary teacher. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Kirchain, Hessen, Germany, on September 20. Strauss completed a doctorate at Hamburg in 1921 and immigrated to the United States in 1938.
About the Leo Strauss Center. The Leo Strauss Center seeks to promote the serious study of Leo Strauss’s thought primarily through the preservation and publication of the unpublished written and audio record that he left behind.
Leo Strauss (1899--1973) was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1969. He also held posts at the New School for Social Research, Claremont McKenna College, and St. John’s College in Annapolis. Born and educated in Germany, he studied and corresponded with some of Europe’s leading intellectual figures of the time.[Read More]
Who was Leo Strauss? Strauss was a German-Jewish émigré, the product of the pre–World War I Gymnasium who studied at several universities, finally taking his doctorate at Hamburg in 1921. He was a research assistant at an institute for Jewish research in Berlin before leaving Germany in 1932 to settle first in England and later in the United States, where he taught principally at the New ...
There is a growing recognition around the world of the need to come to terms with Strauss’s thought. Important books on his thought have been published in recent years. In English: Paweł Armada and Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, eds., Modernity and What Has Been Lost: Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss ( Kraków: Jagiellonian University ...
Leo Strauss was born to Hugo and Jenny David Strauss on September 20, 1899, in Kirchhain, Germany, a rural town in Hesse outside the university city of Marburg. Hugo Strauss was a merchant in the grain and wool wholesaling business established by his father, Meyer, and a leading member of the local Jewish community. ...
