Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a German-American political theorist and writer. Born in Hanover, she studied philosophy, among other subjects, with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, under whom she received her doctorate. After emigrating to Paris in 1933, she moved to the United States in 1941 and later became an American citizen. Arendt taught, among other places, at the University of Chicago and, from 1967, at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her major works include *The Origins of Totalitarianism*, *The Human Condition*, and *Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil*. Her account of the Eichmann trial sparked an international debate. Arendt died in New York in 1975.