Born: 14 October 1906, Germany
Died: 4 December 1975
Country most active: International
Also known as: NA
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1906, Oct. 14 Born, Hannover, Germany
1928 Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
1929 Published Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (Berlin: Springer Verlag. 90 pp.)
Married Günther Stern (divorced 1937)
1933 Moved to Paris, France
1935-1939 Secretary general, Youth Aliyah, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Paris, France
1938-1939 Special agent for rescue of Jewish children from Austria and Czechoslovakia
1940 Married Heinrich Blücher (died 1970)
Interned in concentration camp, Gurs, France
1941 Emigrated with her husband to the United States
1941-1945 Journalist
1944-1946 Research director, Conference on Jewish Relations
1946-1948 Chief editor, Schocken Books
1949-1952 Executive director, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
1951 Published The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace. 477 pp.)
Became a United States citizen
1952 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
1953 Delivered Christian Gauss lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1954 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
1955 Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
1956 Delivered Walgreen Foundation lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1957 Published Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess (London: Published for the Leo Baeck Institute by the East and West Library. 222 pp.); translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston
1958 Published The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 332 pp.)
1959 Visiting professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1960 Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1961 Visiting professor of humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Published Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press. 246 pp.)
1961-1962 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1963 Published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press. 275 pp.)
Published On Revolution (New York: Viking Press. 343 pp.)
1963-1975 Professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1967 Received Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
1967-1975 University professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1968 Published Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 272 pp.)
1969 Awarded Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1969-1975 Associate Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1970 Published On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 106 pp.)
1972 Published Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 240 pp.)
1972-1975 Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1973-1974 Delivered Gifford lectures, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
1975 Awarded Sonning Prize in Denmark
1975, Dec. 4 Died, New York, N.Y.
1978 Posthumous publication of The Jew as Pariah, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove Press. 288 pp.)
Posthumous publication of The Life of the Mind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2 vols.)
1982 Posthumous publication of Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, edited with an interpretive essay by Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 174 pp.)
1994 Posthumous publication of Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954, edited by Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 458 pp.)
1996 Posthumous publication of Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 233 pp.)
Publication of Hannah Arendt/Heinrich Blücher: Briefe 1936-1968, edited and with an introduction by Lotte Köhler (Munich: Piper. 596 pp.); translated into English by Peter Constantine and published in 2000 as Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 (N.Y.: Harcourt. 459 pp.)