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Leo Strauss [a] (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
Dec 1, 2010 · Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish émigré to the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medieval and modern political philosophy and includes, among others, studies of Plato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche.
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.
Biography. Leo Strauss was born in 1899 in the town of Kirchhain in Hesse, Germany, where his father sold farm equipment. He was raised in an observant Jewish home, though one without much Jewish learning. Strauss graduated from the Gymnasium Philippinum in nearby Marburg in 1917.
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 Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna College), and St. John’s College in Annapolis.
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seeks to promote the serious study of Leo Strauss’s thought primarily through the preservation and publication of the unpublished written and audio record that he left behind.
Strauss’ teachings on ancient and modern political philosophy, exoteric writing, historicism, and relativism remain subjects of debate. But there is no question that his work played a major role in reviving and transforming the study of political philosophy and re-established the importance of underappreciated authors such as Xenophon and ...
